Abdelrahman Ehab Mohamed El-Sefy (born 12 August 1998) is an Egyptian sport wrestler who has competed in amateur sumo wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling. As a sport wrestler, he competes in the 87 kg division of Greco-Roman wrestling. As an amateur sumo wrestler, he is a gold medalist at the World Games and a two-time bronze medalist at the Sumo World Championships.
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| Born | 12 August 1998 (age 26) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Egypt | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling, Sumo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sumo career
editIn sumo wrestling, El-Safy first participated in the 2017 in the men's lightweight division, where he lost in the semifinals and repechages semifinals. He also competed in the World Sumo Championships, winning a bronze medal in 2018 and 2019.[1]
El-Safy returned to the World Games in 2022, again in the men's lightweight division. In the latter, he won the gold medal.[2][3] Conversely, the Egyptian sumo team, in which El-Sefy belonged to, was banned from competing in the remaining sumo events after "poor sportsmanship".[3] The poor organization and sportsmanship displayed during that competition led to sumo being dropped from the program ahead of the 2025 World Games.[4][5][6]
References
edit- ^ "2016−2023 World Sumo Championships". International Sumo Federation.
- ^ "Egyptian Sumo Athlete Wins Gold In World Games 2022". lovin.co.
- ^ a b Berkeley, Geoff (10 July 2022). "Egyptian sumo team banned from World Games over "poor sportsmanship"". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
- ^ "Hanamichi: Sumo Dropped from World Games". tachiai.org. 16 July 2023.
- ^ Gunning, John (18 October 2023). "Sumo's Olympic dream requires fresh approach". The Japan Times.
- ^ Gunning, John (13 July 2022). "World Games chaos highlights amateur sumo's structural flaws". The Japan Times.