Seifollah Ghaleb
{{short description|Egyptian sports shooter}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1916|5|12|df=yes}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1984|12|21|1916|5|12|df=yes}}{{cite news|title = (Untitled)|newspaper = Al-Ahram|location = Cairo|pages = 15|language = ar|date = 22 December 1984}}
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| sport = Sports shooting
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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver | 1947 Stockholm| Team trap}}
{{MedalSilver | 1952 Oslo| Team trap}}
{{MedalBronze | 1947 Stockholm| Individual trap}}
{{MedalBronze | 1954 Caracas| Team trap}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold | 1955 Bucharest | Individual trap}}
{{MedalCompetition|Mediterranean Games}}
{{MedalSilver | 1955 Barcelona| Individual trap}}
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Seifollah Ghaleb (12 May 1916 – 21 December 1984) was an Egyptian sports shooter who competed in the Olympic Trap event from the mid-1940s through the mid-1950s and was the European Champion in 1955. He also won medals at the 1947, 1952, the 1954 World Championships, the 1954 and 1956 European Championships, the 1955 Mediterranean Games, and participated at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Ghaleb was a member of the Egyptian Shooting Club and competed in the Olympic Trap event. He earned his first international medals at the 1947 ISSF World Shooting Championships held in Stockholm, Sweden. Individually he won bronze, behind Hans Liljedahl and Klas Kleberg of Sweden,{{cite web|url = http://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/historicalmedalwinners.ashx|title = Historical Results - World Championships - Current Events Shotgun World Championships|year = 2016|publisher = International Shooting Sport Federation|access-date = 27 October 2016}} while in the team event he took silver alongside Farid Makarius, Mahmoud Labib, and Sharif Shahine. He won silver again in the team event at the 1952 World Championships in Oslo, Norway, with Shahine, Youssef Fares, and Michel Marabouti.{{cite web|url = http://www.issf-sports.org/pages/historicalresults.aspx?hr=wch_current_events_adult_team_shotgun|title = Historical Results - World Championships - Current Events Shotgun Team World Championships|year = 2016|publisher = International Shooting Sport Federation|access-date = 27 October 2016}} He then participated in the individual trap event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, where he placed 12th.{{cite web|last = Gjerde|first = Arild|author2=Jeroen Heijmans |author3=Bill Mallon |author4=Hilary Evans |title = Seifollah Ghaleb Bio, Stats, and Results|work = Olympics|publisher = Sports Reference.com|date = June 2016|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gh/seifollah-ghaleb-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418112926/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gh/seifollah-ghaleb-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|accessdate = 27 October 2016}} He made his final podium appearance at the World Championships in 1954, which was held in Caracas, Venezuela, by capturing bronze in the team event with Mohamed Ezzedine Badrawi, Rafie Senoussi, and Aly Riad. He also won a silver medal in the individual trap event at the 1955 Mediterranean Games, held in Barcelona, Spain, behind Italian Galliano Rossini,{{cite web|last = Gjerde|first = Arild|author2=Jeroen Heijmans |author3=Bill Mallon |author4=Hilary Evans |title = Olympians Who Won a Medal at the Mediterranean Games|work = Olympics|publisher = Sports Reference.com|date = June 2016|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=88|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055508/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=88|url-status = dead|archive-date = 17 April 2020|accessdate = 27 October 2016}} and was that year's European Champion in Bucharest, Romania. He was also a member of the bronze medal-winning Egyptian trap teams at the 1954 and 1956 editions of the tournament.{{cite web|url = https://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/s/schiessen/hst/51.html|title = Schießen - Europameisterschaften - Wurftaubenschießen|publisher = Sport-komplett.de|access-date = 27 October 2016}} {{in lang|de}} Domestically, he won individual titles in trap in 1947 and 1951{{cite news|title = الرماية في دورة البحر الابيض|newspaper = Al-Ahram|location = Bulaq, Cairo, Egypt|page = 3|language = ar|date = 10 October 1951}} and skeet in 1949.{{cite news|title = بطولة مصر للرماية|newspaper = Al-Ahram|location = Bulaq, Cairo, Egypt|page = 6|language = ar|date = 4 May 1949}}
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Category:Egyptian male sport shooters
Category:Olympic shooters for Egypt
Category:Shooters at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Category:Place of birth missing
Category:Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Egypt
Category:Shooters at the 1955 Mediterranean Games