Youssef Ramadan

Youssef Ramadan

Personal information
Native name	يوسف رمضان
Nationality	Egypt
Born	(2002-07-07) 7 July 2002 (age 19) Egypt
Sport
Sport	Swimming
College team	Virginia Tech

Youssef Ramadan (Arabic: يوسف رمضان; born 7 July 2002) is an Egyptian swimmer. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 100 metre butterfly where he placed 16th in the semifinals. At the 2021 FINA World Short Course Swimming Championships he placed fourth in the 100 metre butterfly, fifth in the 4×50 metre medley relay, 12th in the 4×100 metre medley relay, 13th in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, and 13th in the 100 metre freestyle.

Background[]

Ramadan competes at the collegiate level for Virginia Tech.^[1]

Career[]

2020 Olympic Games[]

At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ramadan set an Egyptian record in the prelims heats of the 100 metre butterfly with a time of 51.67 seconds, which qualified him for the semifinals tied in rank for fourteenth overall in the prelims heats with Szebasztián Szabó of Hungary.^[2][3] In the semifinals, Ramadan placed sixteenth with a time of 52.27 seconds and did not qualify for the final.^[4]

2021 World Short Course Championships[]

At the 2021 FINA World Short Course Swimming Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Ramadan won his prelims heats of the 100 metre butterfly with a personal best time of 49.66 seconds and advanced to semifinals ranked third overall, six-hundredths of a second slower than second-ranked Andrei Minakov of Russia and seventeen-hundredths of a second slower than first-ranked Noè Ponti of Switzerland.^[5][6] In the semifinals of the event later the same day, Ramadan qualified for the final ranking third with a time of 49.60 seconds.^[7] One day earlier, Ramadan anchored the 4×100 metre freestyle relay with a 49.03, helping the Egypt relay team place thirteenth in an Egyptian record time of 3:18.49 and not qualifying the relay to the final.^[8] On the third day of competition, Ramadan placed fourth in the final of the 100 metre butterfly with an Egyptian record time of 49.50 seconds, finishing less than three-tenths of a second behind bronze medalist Andrei Minakov.^[9]

The fifth day of competition, Ramadan helped the 4×50 metre medley relay place second in the first prelims heat, splitting a 22.37 for the butterfly leg of the relay to help finish behind the Russia relay team and ahead of the United States relay team with an African record time of 1:33.19, which qualified the relay for the final ranking second overall.^[10] In the same prelims session, Ramadan set a new Egyptian record in the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 46.98 seconds, which ranked him eighth overall and qualified him for the semifinals later in the day.^[11] Later in the day Ramadan helped lower the African record to a 1:32.56 and achieve a fifth-place finish in the 4×50 metre medley relay, splitting a 22.12 for the butterfly leg of the relay.^[12][13] For the semifinals of the 100 metre freestyle, Ramadan placed 13th with a 47.36 and did not advance to the final.^[14] In the morning of the sixth and final day, Ramadan split a 50.89 for the butterfly leg of the 4×100 metre medley relay in the prelims, contributing to an African record time of 3:30.83 and a twelfth-place ranking across all heats.^[15]

2021–2022 Collegiate season[]

During a practice in January 2022 for the Virginia Tech Hokies, Ramadan took part in a virtual challenge of sprinting 75 yards in different strokes wearing fins, for his 75 yards Ramadan swam butterfly, starting from a push-start and performing flip turns on each wall to achieve a time of 28.4 seconds.^[16]

References[]

External links[]

• Youssef Ramadan at FINA
• Youssef Ramadan at SwimRankings.net
• Youssef Ramadan at Olympedia
• Virginia Tech Hokies bio