Seifollah Ghaleb (12 May 1916 – 21 December 1984) was an Egyptian

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who competed in the Olympic Trap event from the mid-1940s through the mid-1950s and was the European Champion in 1955. He also won medals at the 1947, 1952, the 1954 World Championships, the 1954 and 1956 European Championships, the 1955 Mediterranean Games, and participated at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Ghaleb was a member of the

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and competed in the

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event. He earned his first international medals at the 1947 ISSF World Shooting Championships held in

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. Individually he won bronze, behind

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and Klas Kleberg of Sweden, while in the team event he took silver alongside Farid Makarius, Mahmoud Labib, and Sharif Shahine. He won silver again in the team event at the 1952 World Championships in

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, with Shahine, Youssef Fares, and Michel Marabouti. He then participated in the individual trap event at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

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, where he placed 12th. He made his final podium appearance at the World Championships in

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, which was held in

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, by capturing bronze in the team event with Mohamed Ezzedine Badrawi, Rafie Senoussi, and Aly Riad. He also won a silver medal in the individual trap event at the

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, held in

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, behind Italian

Galliano Rossini Galliano Rossini (17 May 1927 – 13 November 1987) was an Italian sports shooter. He competed at the 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics in the trap event and finished in 7th, 1st, 2nd, 4th and 13th place, respectively. He also won six ...

, and was that year's European Champion in

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. He was also a member of the bronze medal-winning Egyptian trap teams at the 1954 and 1956 editions of the tournament. Domestically, he won individual titles in trap in 1947 and 1951 and skeet in 1949.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghaleb, Seifollah 1916 births 1984 deaths Egyptian male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Egypt Shooters at the 1952 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Egypt Shooters at the 1955 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in shooting 20th-century Egyptian people