Mohamed Abdelfatah

Mohamed Abdelfatah
Medal record
Representing  Egypt
Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling
Olympic Games
Disqualified 2004 Athens 84 kg
World Championships
2006 Guangzhou 84 kg
2002 Moscow 84 kg
World Juniors Championships
1998 Cairo 76 kg
World Cup
2002 Cairo 84 kg
2001 Levallois 85 kg
Golden Grand Prix
2011 Tbilisi 96 kg
2010 Baku 96 kg
2000 Alexandria 84 kg
2000 Italy 84 kg
Jeux Mediterranéens
2010 Istanbul 96 kg
2005 Almeria 85 kg
2001 Tunis 85 kg
2013 Istanbul 96 kg
African Championships
2010 Cairo 96 kg
2002 Cairo 84 kg
2001 Morocco 84 kg
2000 Cairo 84 kg
1998 Cairo 76 kg
All African Games
1999 Johannesburg 84 kg Greco-Roman
1999 Johannesburg 84 kg Freestyle wrestling
Pan Arabian Games
2001 Syria 84 kg
1999 Jordan 84 kg
1997 Damascus 83 kg

Mohamed Abdelfatah (Arabic: محمد عبد الفتاح, born February 4, 1978 in Suez, Egypt), commonly known by his nickname "Bogy" (Arabic: بوجى), is an Egyptian Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler.

Career

Abdelfatah(Bogy) represented his country at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. He won his division at the 2006 FILA Wrestling World Championships in Guangzhou, China (84 kg class), beating 2004 Olympic gold medalist Alexei Mishin from Russia in the quarter-finals, and Nazmi Avluca from Turkey in the final.

In the Men's Greco-Roman 85 kg class at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Abdelfatah finished in 8th place. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg class, he contested the result of his fight in the knock out round and was later disqualified. After taking a break for several years because of a knee injury, Abdelfatah started to compete again. In 2010 Mohamed Abdelfatah moved up to 96 kg winning the Mediterranean Games and the African championship. In 2011 he won the silver medal in the Golden Grand Prix in Baku. He also placed third in the Golden Grand Prix in Tbilisi 2011.

2011 World Championship

Mohamed AbdelFattah ambitions Ranked fifth in 96 kg category, the Egyptian Mohamed AbdelFattah is the only African who succeeded to get its qualification ticket for the 2012 Olympic games. He will be aiming for the podium. This is what he clearly stated in Al –Ahram-hebdo: “after an interruption of more than two years unrealistic (suspended) and several injuries it was very difficult to come back into the game, I did not want only to qualify for the Olympic Games, my aim is to take a medal and hopefully gold. My actual level allows me to attain that objective”. As a reminder, Mohamed Abdel-Fattah was the 2006 world champion and several other international and golden Grand Prix medals.

2000 Olympics

Wrestler W L CP TP
 Luis Enrique Méndez (CUB) 2069
 Mohamed Abdelfatah (EGY) 11515
 Quincey Clark (USA) 0200
Red Blue CP TP
Quincey Clark Luis Enrique Méndez0-3 PO 0-5
Mohamed Abdelfatah Quincey Clark4-0 ST 12-0
Luis Enrique Méndez Mohamed Abdelfatah3-1 PP 4-3

2004 Olympics

Pool 2

Wrestler W L CP TP
 Mohamed Abdelfatah (EGY) 2067
 Brad Vering (USA) 1140
 Mukhran Vakhtangadze (GEO) 0200
Red Blue CP TP
Mohamed Abdelfatah Mukhran Vakhtangadze 3-0 PO 3-0
Brad Vering Mohamed Abdelfatah0-3 PO 0-4
Mukhran Vakhtangadze Brad Vering0-4 PA

Knock-Out round

 Viachaslau Makaranka (BLR)|2| Mohamed Abdelfatah (EGY) |0|

Major international achievements

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