Amr El-Gaiar (Arabic: عمرو الجيار; born 19 February 1974 in Cairo) is an Egyptian sport shooter.[2] He was selected to compete for Egypt at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also won a gold medal in skeet shooting at the 2003 African Championships in Pretoria, South Africa.[1] A full-fledged member of the Egyptian Shooting Federation, El-Gaiar trains under national head coach and five-time Olympian Mohamed Khorshed at Doki Shooting Club in his native Cairo.[3]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Amr El-Gaiar |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Born | 19 February 1974 Cairo, Egypt |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Shooting |
| Event | Skeet (SK125) |
| Club | Doki Shooting Club[1] |
| Coached by | Mohamed Khorshed[1] |
El-Gaiar qualified for the Egyptian team in the men's skeet at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He had registered a minimum qualifying score of 117 to join with his fellow shooter and then incoming three-time Olympian Mostafa Hamdy, and fill in the second Olympic quota for Egypt from his successful top finish at the African Championships less than a year earlier.[1][4] Al-Gaiar shot 115 targets out of a possible 125 in the qualifying round to force a three-way tie with Great Britain's Richard Brickell and the Netherlands' Jan-Cor van der Greef for thirty-fourth place from an immense field of forty-one shooters.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "ISSF Profile – Amr El-Gaiar". ISSF. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Amr El-Gaiar". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ "A champion at the end". Al-Ahram Weekly. 25 December 2003. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ^ "Shooting: Men's Skeet Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
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