Nagui Asaad

Nagui Asaad was born on 12 September 1945 to a Coptic family in the north of Egypt.[https://www.wataninet.com/2016/10/%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%89-%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D9%89/ Watani: ناجى أسعد ..عملاق العاب القوى] He moved to Cairo where he graduated from the Faculty of Sport (Physical) Education for Boys at Helwan University. He later worked as a member of teaching staff in the same faculty after graduation. He obtained PhD in Physical Education, and currently works as a professor[http://193.227.34.212/peducationboys/Kinesiology/Staff_Kinesiology.html Faculty of Physical Education website in Arabic]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} in the same faculty.

Nagui Asaad played in the Basketball team of Al Ahly Sporting club between 1966 and 1969 {{Cite web |url=http://www.al-araby.com/articles/1025/060910-1025-spr02.htm |title=Alaraby article |access-date=2007-08-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822234114/http://www.al-araby.com/articles/1025/060910-1025-spr02.htm |archive-date=2007-08-22 |url-status=dead }} then he joined the Athletic team at the same club and became the Egyptian champion in Shot Put.

Along with his colleagues Hisham Greiss, Hassan Ahmed Hamad and Mohamed Naguib Hamed formed one of the strongest Egyptian teams in throw events, a lot of Egyptian sport experts consider them to be the strongest team Egypt ever had.

Following his retirement from competitive events he Worked for many years in Bahrain as a coach for the national Athletic team and returned to Egypt in the 1990s to work in the same field with the Egyptian national team [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2001/545/sp3.htm Al-Ahram Weekly article] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911225128/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2001/545/sp3.htm |date=2008-09-11 }} as the squad's technical manager.{{Cite web |url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/508/sp4.htm |title=Al-Ahram Weekly article |access-date=2007-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818093122/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/508/sp4.htm |archive-date=2007-08-18 |url-status=dead }}

In 1999 as he was setting up a throwing school in Egypt, he recruited Discus thrower Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly and hammer thrower Mohsen El Anany{{Cite web|url=http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/focusOnAthletes/newsId=36230/index.htm|title=IAAF: News {{!}} iaaf.org|website=iaaf.org|access-date=2017-12-06}} who joined the Egyptian squad after that and won championships in their fields under his supervision. Achievements of the Egyptian team under nagui Asaad's management were described as unprecedented in the history of Egypt's Athletics Federation since its 1910 founding.

Nagui Asaad remains the only Egyptian athlete (track and field) to win Gold medals in three major championships, namely; All Africa Games,{{Cite web|url=https://www.angelfire.com/ak/EgyptianSports/other/AtheleticsegyinAllAfrica.html|title=Egyptian Sports Online - Athletics in All Africa Games|last=Said|first=Dr.Tarek|website=Angelfire|access-date=2017-12-06}} Mediterranean Games and African Championships in Athletics.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/afc.htm|title=African Championships|website=www.gbrathletics.com|access-date=2017-12-06}} He has won a total of three medals at the Mediterranean Games one gold and two silver. He was the first Egyptian to exceed 20 metres in shot put throws.{{Cite news|url=http://www.masress.com/riada/2377|title=الآن فقط.. مصر فيها ألعاب قوي|work=مصرس|access-date=2017-12-06}}

Nagui Asaad and Abdel Herin (1955 Mediterranean Games Marathon) remain to date the only two Egyptian Track and field athletes to have won a Gold medal each in the Mediterranean Games.

Internationally he ranks as number 130 of the world's 150 all-time best throws shot put[http://web.telia.com/~u19603668/atb-m29.htm 150 best Shot Put] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050419192744/http://web.telia.com/~u19603668/atb-m29.htm |date=2005-04-19 }} by 20.71 Metre.

Nagui Asaad held the championship record of the African Championships since 1982 African Championships in Athletics, with a throw of 20.44 metres. until 2004 African Championships in Athletics when Janus Robberts achieved 21.02.

His record shot put throw in All Africa games of 19.48 stood since 1973 All-Africa Games{{Cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/afg.htm|title=All-Africa Games|website=www.gbrathletics.com|access-date=2017-12-06}} as the championship record for twenty six years until Burger Lambrechts broke it at the 1999 All-Africa Games.

Between 1971 and 1979 Nagui Asaad held the championship record of the Mediterranean Games in Shot Put with a throw of 20.19 Meters, this record was broken by Vladimir Milić from Yugoslavia in 1979.

• Twice African champion in Shot Put, 1979, 1982.
• Gold medallist in shot put of the 1971 Mediterranean Games, İzmir (Turkey) {{Cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/mg.htm|title=Mediterranean Games|website=www.gbrathletics.com|access-date=2017-12-06}}
• Twice Gold medallist in Shot Put of the All Africa Games, 1973, Nigeria, 1978, Algeria
• Twice Gold medallist in Shot Put of East and Central African Championships 1981, 1982.[http://www.gbrolympics.com/ic/ecafc.htm East and Central African Championships results on GBR Athletics website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928050900/http://www.gbrolympics.com/ic/ecafc.htm |date=2007-09-28 }}
• Gold medallist in shot put of the 1980 Liberty Bell Classic (19.69 m), (Olympic Boycott Games) the alternative event arranged for those nations boycotting the 1980 Olympic Games {{Cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/obg.htm|title=Olympic Boycott Games|website=www.gbrathletics.com|access-date=2017-12-06}}
• Silver medallist in shot put of the 1979 Mediterranean Games, Split, Yugoslavia

• Silver medallist in Discus throw of the 1971 Mediterranean Games, İzmir (Turkey)
• Silver medallist in Discus throw of the All Africa Games, Nigeria, 1973 .

Despite multiple attempts, Nagui Asaad never competed in any of the Summer Olympic Games [http://the-mermaid-tavern.blogspot.com/2008/05/incredible-rotten-luck-of-youssef-nagui.html The mermaid tavern]{{Dead link|date=April 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

• 1968 Summer Olympics, Nagui Asaad missed qualifying for the Egyptian Olympic team - by two centimeters.
• 1972 Summer Olympics, he went with the Egyptian team to Munich, but was withdrawn by his government after the Munich massacre when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually murdered by the Islamic terrorist group Black September.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AK6QA_WotRYC&q=%22munich+massacre%22+terrorists&pg=PT144 |title=Terrorism & {{sic|I|t's|nolink=y}} Effects - Google Books |date= 7 August 2007|isbn=9788189940935 |access-date=2010-06-22|last1=Sanchez |first1=Juan |publisher=Global Media }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=36PiolMMZrUC&q=%22munich+massacre%22+terrorists&pg=PA10 |title=Terrorism - Google Books |date=2001-09-11 |isbn=9781562546663 |access-date=2010-06-22|last1=Weil |first1=Ann |publisher=Saddleback Educational Publ }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VJJG14mHbGAC&q=%22munich+massacre%22+terrorists&pg=PA34 |title=The new dimension of international ... - Google Books |date=2001-09-11 |isbn=9783728129499 |access-date=2010-06-22|last1=Aubrey |first1=Stefan M. |publisher=vdf Hochschulverlag AG }}{{cite book |last1=Kushner |first1=Harvey W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOfkAoDb_2IC&q=%22munich+massacre%22+terrorists&pg=PA248 |title=Encyclopedia of terrorism - Google Books |year=2003 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=9780761924081 |author-link=Harvey Kushner |access-date=2010-06-22}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AWzieu562dQC&q=%22munich+massacre%22+terrorists&pg=PA107 |title=The terrorist trap: America's ... - Google Books |date=1976-07-18 |isbn=0253214777 |access-date=2010-06-22|last1=Simon |first1=Jeffrey David |publisher=Indiana University Press }}
• 1976 Summer Olympics, after arrival to Montréal, Egypt withdrew from the Games as part of the anti-apartheid boycott. This was due to that in 1972 and 1976 a large number of African countries threatened the IOC with a boycott to force them to ban South Africa and Rhodesia, because of their segregationist regimes. New Zealand was also one of the African boycott targets, due to the "All Blacks" (national rugby team) having toured apartheid-ruled South Africa. The IOC conceded in the first two cases, but refused to ban New Zealand on the grounds that rugby was not an Olympic sport.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/2.720/african-nations-boycott-costly-montreal-games-1.770807 |title=African nations boycott costly Montreal Games |publisher=CBC Sports |date=2008-07-30|access-date=2009-02-06}} Fulfilling their threat, twenty African countries were joined by Guyana and Iraq in a Tanzania-led withdrawal from the Montreal Games, after a few of their athletes had already competed.{{cite journal |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1976/ore109/ore109h.pdf |title=Africa and the XXIst Olympiad |journal=Olympic Review |issue=109–110 |pages=584–585 |date=November–December 1976 |publisher=International Olympic Committee |access-date=February 6, 2009}} Athletes from Cameroon, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia competed on July 18–20 before these nations withdrew from the Games.
• 1980 Summer Olympics, Egypt Boycotted the Moscow Games and he went to become the Gold medallist in shot put of the 1980 Liberty Bell Classic, (Olympic Boycott Games) the alternative event arranged for those nations boycotting the 1980 Olympic Games.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070219174127/http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/afc.htm African Championships in Athletics results on gbrathletics website ]
• [http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/mg.htm/ Mediterranean Games Athletic results gbrathletics website ]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070205091207/http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/afg.htm All Africa Games Athletics results gbrathletics website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928050900/http://www.gbrolympics.com/ic/ecafc.htm gbrathletics website East and Central African Championships results]
• [http://www.gbrathletics.com/nc/egy.htm GBR Athletics Egyptian athletics championships winners since 1981]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100103134728/http://saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/197207/the.arabs.in.izmir.htm Article on Arabs in 1971 Mediterranean Games Izmir ]
• [http://www.helwan.edu.eg/ena/faculties/sportm/index.htm Helwan University Faculty of Physical Education webpage]

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