Ibrahim Shams
Olympic athlete
1914 – 1984
Who was Ibrahim Shams?
Ibrahim Hassanien Shams was an Egyptian weightlifter who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Alexandria.
In 1936 he won the bronze medal in the featherweight class.
Because of the start of World War II and cancellation of the Olympics in both 1940 and 1944 years, he was forced to wait till 1948 London to prove himself again only to get the Gold Medal by lifting a total of weights of 360 kg in the Lightweight. He is the second Egyptian to score two medals after Farid Simaika in diving back in 1928 Amsterdam but he's the first to score them on two different Olympic tournaments.
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- Born
- Sep 20, 1914
Egypt - Also known as
- Ibrahim Hassanein Shams
- Died
- 1984
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on July 23, 2013
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