Mohamed Ali Rashwan

Mohamed Ali Rashwan

Rashwan in 2019
Personal information
Native name	محمد علي رشوان
National team	Egyptian judoka National Team
Citizenship	Egypt  Japan
Born	(1965-01-16) January 16, 1965 (age 57) Alexandria, Egypt
Sport
Country	Egypt
Sport	Judoka
Medal record Men's Judo 1984 Los Angeles Open Class

Mohamed Ali Rashwan (Arabic: محمد علي رشوان, born January 16, 1956) is an Egyptian judoka. At the 1984 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal in the men's Open Class category.

Life[]

Born in Alexandria in Egypt, His first international participation was in 1972 in Czechoslovakia and Spain. he retired in 1992 and is now member of the Egyptian Judo Federation and an international judo judge.

Achievements[]

• Winner of fairplay international award in 1984^[1]
• Silver medallist at the 1985 World Judo Championships in open weight^[2]
• Silver medallist at the 1987 World Judo Championships in heavy weight^[2]

In 1984, he lost the finals to Japan's Yasuhiro Yamashita, who tore a right calf muscle in the preliminaries. Rashwan stated that he did not aim for Yamashita's right leg because he did not regard that as a fair play, and was subsequently given an award from the International Fairplay Committee.^[3]

He also won the gold medal in the heavyweight and open class category in the African Championship in 1982 and 1983.

References[]

External links[]

• https://web.archive.org/web/20080820034155/http://www.sis.gov.eg/VR/figures/english/html/Heif2.htm
• Mens Open Class at Sports Reference

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