Ibrahim Ghanem
{{short description|French Greco-Roman wrestler}}
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{{Medal|Sport| Men's Greco-Roman wrestling }}
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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2023 Belgrade|72 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2024 Tirana|72 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2025 Bratislava|72 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2023 Zagreb|72 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|Grand Prix}}
{{MedalGold|2022 Dortmund|77 kg}}
{{MedalGold|2023 Druskininkai|72 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2020 Warsaw|72 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2021 Bucharest|72 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2021 Nice|72 kg}}
{{MedalBronze|2023 Zagreb|72 kg}}
{{MedalBronze|2025 Nice| 72 kg }}
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{{MedalCompetition|African Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2017 Marrakesh|71 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|Military World Games}}
{{MedalBronze|2015 Mungyeong|75 kg}}
{{Medal|Competition|World Juniors Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|2014 Zagreb|66 kg}}
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Ibrahim Ghanem (born 17 April 1995 in Egypt) is an Egyptian wrestler naturalized French, specializing in Greco-Roman wrestling. He was African champion in Marrakech 2017 in the 71 kg. He won the gold medal in the 72 kg event at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships.{{Cite web|url=https://uww.org/athletes-results/ghanem-ibrahim-mahmoud-hamed-hassan-31063-profile|title=International Wrestling Database|website=whatsmat.uww.org|access-date=2024-01-28}}{{cite web | url=https://whatsmat.uww.org/daten.php?spid=5D0EE44083FF4EFFB2E4DBB141E72CDA | title=International Wrestling Database }}
Career
He showed off in the Egyptian youth national team by winning a bronze medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Zagreb.{{Cite web|url=https://uww.org/event/world-championships-18|title = World Championships}}{{cite web |title=World Championship 2014 - Junior |url=https://uww.org/sites/default/files/media/results_08_zagreb_updated_0.pdf |date=August 2014}}
He was part of Egypt's expedition to the World Military Games in Mungyeong, where he won the bronze medal in the 75 kg tournament.Lange, Katie (2015-10-05). [http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/2015/10/2015-cism-military-world-games-kick-off-in-south-korea/ 2015 CISM Military World Games Kick Off in South Korea] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161215124042/http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/2015/10/2015-cism-military-world-games-kick-off-in-south-korea/ |date=2016-12-15 }} Department of Defense Live. Retrieved on 2015-10-09.
He became continental champion at the 2017 African Championships in Marrakech by winning the 71 kg category, overcoming Algerian Akrem Boudjemline in the final.{{cite web|title=African Championships|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/program/infos_04_marrakech_5.pdf|accessdate= 16 April 2019}}
Since 2020, he has been competing for the French national team, with which he made his debut at the 2020 Rome Europeans, where he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the 72-kilogram tournament by Russia's Adam Kurak. At the 2020 Belgrade Individual World Cup, a competition that replaced the world championship, which was canceled due to the onset of the health emergency resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Turkey's Cengiz Arslan.[https://uww.org/arena/weight-category/3111e45b-3ba9-11eb-9dcc-08002796c0c6/bracket.pdf Individual World Cup - Dec 2020]{{Cite web|url=https://uww.org/event/individual-world-cup?tab=results&weight-category=3111e45b-3ba9-11eb-9dcc-08002796c0c6|title=Individual World Cup|access-date=2024-03-23|archive-date=2021-09-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908181139/https://uww.org/event/individual-world-cup?tab=results&weight-category=3111e45b-3ba9-11eb-9dcc-08002796c0c6|url-status=dead}}
At the 2021 Warsaw Europeans he was ousted from the 72 kg category in the round of 16 by Hungarian Róbert Fritsch, later a bronze medal winner. The same year he made his debut at the world championships held in Oslo where he passed the first round against Aleksa Erski of Serbia and was eliminated in the round of 16 by Gevorg Sahakyan of Poland.{{Cite web|url=https://uww.org/event/european-championships-23|title=European Championships Schedule|website=United World Wrestling}}{{Cite news|last=Shefferd|first=Neil|date=21 April 2021|title=Russia claim three more golds on day three of European Wrestling Championships|work=InsideTheGames.biz|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1106954/russia-three-golds-european-wrestling|access-date=22 April 2021}}
At the Budapest 2022 Europeans he was ousted from the main draw of the 77 kg tournament (his new weight category as of this event) in the round of 16 at the hands of Turkey's Yunus Emre Başar; in the repechages he was defeated by Serbia's Antonio Kamenjašević.{{Cite web|url=https://uww.org/event/european-championships-28|title=European Championships|website=United World Wrestling}}
On September 23, 2023, he won the gold medal in the 2023 World Wrestling Championships.{{cite news |title=72kg Bracket |url=https://arena.uww.org/weight-category/show/1ee3cbaf-26a4-6198-8716-bfe4885c9744/bracket/print |access-date=21 September 2023 |work=United World Wrestling}}
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Category:Egyptian male sport wrestlers
Category:French male sport wrestlers
Category:African Wrestling Championships medalists
Category:Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
Category:World Wrestling Champions
Category:World Wrestling Championships medalists
Category:21st-century Egyptian sportsmen
Category:21st-century French sportsmen
Category:Military World Games bronze medalists
Category:Military World Games medalists for France