Ahmed Ghonaim
Egyptian gymnast
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Ahmed Hussain Ahmed Ghonaim (born 1937) is an Egyptian gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1960 Summer Olympics.[2] He had previously won five medals at the 1959 Mediterranean Games.[3] After the games, he joined a Russian-operated circus, first in Cairo and then in Lebanon. To avoid the Lebanese Civil War, he went to Saudi Arabia, where his promotion of gymnastics in the country—in which it had, to that point, been virtually unknown—led to him being considered "the founder of the sport of gymnastics in Saudi Arabia."[4]
FullnameAhmed Hussain Ahmed Ghonaim
Born17 July 1937
Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
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| Born | 17 July 1937 Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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