Syria adorned with its first Olympic medal since 2004.. and an Egyptian bronze in wrestling (photos)

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Syrian weightlifter Maan Assaad gave his country its first medal since 2004 in the Olympic Games, while Egyptian Mohamed El-Sayed Ibrahim won a bronze in Greco-Roman wrestling, today, Wednesday, at the Tokyo Olympics.

Qatari beach soccer duo Sherif Younes and Ahmed Tejan continued his impressive rise, defeating Italians Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lobo 21-17, 23-21 to reach the semi-finals.

Asaad (27 years) won bronze in the weight of +109 kg by lifting 190 kg in snatch and 234 nets (424 kg in total), to be third behind Georgian Lasha Talakhadze, who broke the world record with a record of 488 kg and Iranian Ali Daoudi (441 kg).

Asaad participated in the current games after getting rid of the shoulder pain that followed his participation in the Asian Championships in Uzbekistan last April, when he achieved three silvers with a local record of 433 kg (195 snatches and 238 nets).

Asaad was in the fifteenth place in the Rio Olympics and participated at the time with a weight of +105 and his group reached 400 kg (180 snatch and 220 net).

During his career, he achieved the Syrian Championship in various categories, winning his first international championship at the age of 14 in the Asian Junior Championships in Uzbekistan 2009. He also achieved the first place in the Asian Championship in Kyrgyzstan in 2013 and the Challenge Cup in Switzerland 2019.

In 2019, he finished fifth in the World Championship in Thailand and won three silvers in the 2021 Asian Championships in Uzbekistan.

Asaad was suspended in April 2010 for two years by the International Federation, after it was proven that he had taken the banned substance metandienone.

During its previous participation in the Olympic Games, which began in 1948, Syria won 3 medals, a gold won by Ghada Shuaa in the heptathlon competition in Atlanta 1996, a silver for freestyle wrestler Joseph Attieh in the 100 kg weight in Los Angeles 1984 and a bronze for the boxer Nasser Al-Shami in the 91 kg weight in Athens 2004 The

Algerian Walid Bidani was absent after being infected with the Corona virus.

Bronze for "Kisho"

Egyptian Mohamed El-Sayed Ibrahim "Kisho" won the bronze in Greco-Roman wrestling, by defeating the Russian under neutral flag Artem Surkov, with the advantage of points 3-1 (1-1).

Kisho, 23, started his campaign on Tuesday in the eighth-finals of the 67-kg weight category, defeating South Korean Hansoo Ryu 7-6, and then overtaking Karen Aslanian in the quarter-finals with points (7-7). In the semi-finals, he was close to qualifying for the title match and at least guaranteeing a silver by advancing over Ukrainian Parviz Nasipov, but the latter overturned his delay to win 7-6.

In the bronze match, "Kisho" scored a point against Surkov, which gave him the victory over the world champion 2018.

The son of Alexandria started wrestling at the age of five, and in 2019 he was named the best wrestler under the age of 23 by the World Amateur Wrestling Federation.

This is Egypt's third medal in the current Olympics after the bronze medals for Taekwondo by Seif Issa (80 kg weight) and Hedaya Malak (57 kg weight).

It is also Egypt's eighth medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, after Ibrahim Mostafa's gold in light heavyweight in 1928, silver by Mahmoud Hassan in cock weight, bronze in Ibrahim Orabi in light heavyweight in 1948, bronze in Abdel-Aal Rashid in featherweight in 1952, silver by Othman El-Sayed in flyweight in 1960, then gold Karam Gaber was honored with a weight of 96 kg in 2004 and a silver in 84 kg in 2012.

Minutes after "Kisho" won the bronze, his compatriot Mohamed Metwally was unable to follow in his footsteps by losing to German Maximilian Denis Kudla by falling (1-8) in the match to determine the bronze weight 87 kg.

On Tuesday, Metwally beat Belarusian Kirill Maskevich with a 9-1 technical advantage, then Cuban Daniel Grigorić Hichevarria with a 4-0 fall. In the semi-finals, he fell to Hungarian Viktor Lorentz with points 2-9.

After the medals of Asaad and "Kisho", the balance of the Arabs rose so far to 11 medals, including four golds.

In athletics, Bahraini Motili Winfried Yaffe, 21, was unable to repeat the feat of Ruth Gibbett, the 3,000m steeplechase champion in Rio 2016, and finished tenth with a time of 9:19.74 after she recorded the fastest time (9:10.80 in the qualifying).

The Egyptian Ihab Abdel Rahman, 32, bid farewell to the javelin qualifiers by a narrow margin, after coming in thirteenth place, first after the 12 qualified, to throw the javelin at a distance of 81.92 meters.

In diving, Egyptian Maha Gouda qualified as a reserve player to the semi-finals of the fixed platform at a height of ten meters after finishing in the twentieth place with a score of 275.30 points, compared to 390.70 for the Chinese leader Yuchi Chen.

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