Mohamed Ehab

Mohamed Ehab Youssef Ahmed Mahmoud (born 21 November 1989), known as Mohamed Mahmoud^[1][2] or Mohamed Ehab,^[3] is an Egyptian weightlifter, and World Champion competing in the 77 kg category until 2018 and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.^[4]

Mohamed Ehab

Personal information
Full name	Mohamed Ehab Youssef Ahmed Mahmoud
Nationality	Egypt
Born	(1989-11-21) 21 November 1989 (age 34) Faiyum, Egypt
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	80.72 kg (178 lb)
Sport
Country	Egypt
Sport	Weightlifting
Event	–81 kg
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	Snatch: 173 kg (2018) Clean and jerk: 201 kg (2015) Total: 373 kg (2018)
Medal record Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro –77 kg World Championships 2017 Anaheim –77 kg 2014 Almaty –69 kg 2015 Houston –77 kg 2018 Ashgabat –81 kg African Games 2019 Rabat –81 kg Mediterranean Games 2018 Tarragona –77 kg Islamic Solidarity Games 2017 Baku 77 kg

Early life

Ehab was born in Faiyum, Egypt a city located 100 kilometers southwest from Cairo. He was introduced to weightlifting by his father. Ehab started training with a coach at the age of 8 after his brother took him to a weightlifting gym. He went on to join the Egyptian national team at the age of 15 at a body weight of 56 kg. Ehab's biggest influence in weightlifting was his father, after his passing Mohamed decided to dedicate his life to the sport.^[3]

Career

Olympics

At the 2016 Summer Olympics he competed in the men's 77 kg^[5] weight class, getting third place for the snatch and second place for clean & jerk, giving him a third place which was upgraded to silver in 2022 when the gold medalist was disqualified.^[6][1][7]

World Championships

In 2014 he won the silver medal in the Total for the 69 kg weight-class in the 2014 World Weightlifting Championships, lifting 334 kg. He also won a bronze medal in the Snatch (152 kg) and silver in the Clean & Jerk (182 kg).^[8]

In the following year he competed in the 77 kg weight-class at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships in Houston, winning a bronze medal in the total initially. The original silver medalist Kim Kwang-song failed a drug test^[9] and his lifts were disqualified, giving Ihab the silver medal to go along with a silver medal in the clean & jerk.

In 2017 he competed at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships in the 77 kg category. He became World Champion, winning gold medals^[10] in all lifts, giving Egypt its first overall gold medal at the World Weightlifting Championships since Said Khalifa Gouda and Ibrahim Shams won gold medals in 1951.^[11]

In 2018 the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories and Ihab competed in the newly created 81 kg category. In the snatch portion of the competition he lifted a new world record^[12] of 173 kg, which exceeded the world record set by Lü Xiaojun minutes earlier, this secured him the gold medal in the snatch. With his first two attempts of 196 kg and 200 kg in the clean & jerk portion he set two new world records of 369 kg and 373 kg^[13] in the total. This was not enough to win gold as Lü Xiaojun lifted 202 kg, giving him a 1 kg lead over Ihab as he won the silver medal.^[14]

In September 2019, Egypt was banned from participating in IWF competitions for two years due to doping offenses. Therefore, Ehab was not able to compete in the 2019 IWF championship and Tokyo 2020. In December 2021, he returned to competition in IWF world champions in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He missed two of his snatch attempts. For the clean and jerk, he withdrew from the competition due to a shoulder injury.

Major results

Year	Venue	Weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total	Rank
			1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
Olympic Games
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	77 kg	160	165	168		196	196	203		361
World Championships
2014	Almaty, Kazakhstan	69 kg	145	149	152		177	177	182		334
2015	Houston, United States	77 kg	157	162	166	6	193	197	201		363
2017	Anaheim, United States	77 kg	160	165	168		191	191	196		361
2018	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	81 kg	165	170	173 WR		196	200	203		373 WR
Mediterranean Games
2018	Tarragona, Spain	77 kg	158	162	166		186	190	196		352

References

1. "Mohamed Mahmoud". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 10 December 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
2. "Mohamed Mahmoud". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
3. "Mohamed Ehab Interview", All Things Gym, 21 May 2016, archived from the original on 20 December 2016, retrieved 16 December 2016
4. "PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 81 kg" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 November 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2018. Mohamed Ihab Youssef Ahmed MAHMOUD
5. "Rio 2016 77kg Men". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018. Mohamed MAHMOUD
6. "Kazakhstan's Nijat Rahimov stripped of Rio 2016 Olympic gold medal and banned". BBC. Archived from the original on 4 May 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
7. "WEIGHTLIFTING WORLD RECORD FOR RAHIMOV, AS CHINA'S XIANG ALSO TAKES GOLD". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 10 December 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
8. "World Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). IWF.net. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
9. "Doping Sanctions". IWF.net. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
10. "MAHMOUD Mohamed Ihab Youssef Ahmed (EGY) made it to the top". IWF.net. Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
11. "Weightlifting: Mohamed Ihab gives Egypt three gold medals at World Championship". Ahram.org. Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
12. "Weightlifting: Egypt's Mohamed Ihab wins gold medal at world championship, sets record". nileinternational.net. Archived from the original on 10 December 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
13. "World Record Parade in the men's 81kg". IWF.net. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
14. "EGYPT'S MOHAMED IHAB BREAKS WORLD RECORD AT INTERNATIONAL WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIP 2018". cairoscene.com. Archived from the original on 10 December 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.

External links

• Mohamed Ihab Youssef Ahmed MAHMOUD at the International Weightlifting Federation
• Mohamed MAHMOUD at Olympics.com
• Mohamed MAHMOUD at Olympic.org (archived)