Tamer Hussein

Tamer Abdelmoneim Hussein (Arabic: تامر عبد المنعم حسين‎; born 22 November 1974 in Cairo) is an Egyptian taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the men's featherweight category.[1] He captured two medals each in the men's 70-kg division at the World Taekwondo Championships (1991 and 1997), and attained a fifth-place finish at the 2004 Summer Olympics, representing his nation Egypt.

Tamer Hussein
Personal information
Full nameTamer Abdelmoneim Hussein
Nationality Egypt
Born (1974-11-22) 22 November 1974
Cairo, Egypt
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
SportTaekwondo
Event(s)68 kg
Medal record
Men's taekwondo
Representing  Egypt
World Championships
1997 Hong Kong 70 kg
1991 Athen 70 kg

Hussein qualified as a 29-year-old for the Egyptian squad in the men's featherweight class (68 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by defeating Tunisia's Mohamed Omrani for the top spot and securing a berth from the African Olympic Qualifying Tournament in his native Cairo.[2][3] Hussein lost his opening match 8–1 to Chinese Taipei's Huang Chih-hsiung, but slipped abruptly into the repechage for a chance to add another Olympic bronze medal for Egypt in the sport, following Huang's progress towards the final.[4] In the repechage, Hussein redeemed from his ill-fated Olympic prelim feat to seal an adamant 8–4 victory over Austria's two-time Olympian Tuncay Çalışkan, before ending his Olympic run by plunging to a 6–8 decision against South Korea's Song Myeong-seob, relegating Hussein to fifth position.[5][6]

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Tamer Hussein". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  2. "Athens 2004: Taekwondo – Men's Entry List by NOC" (PDF). Athens 2004. LA84 Foundation. pp. 2–4. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  3. "استعدادا للبطولة الإفريقية للتايكوندو بالقاهرة150 لاعبا ولاعبة يمثلون25 دولةيتنافسون علي الذهاب لأوليمبياد أثينا" [A total of 150 players from 25 nations are ready to compete at the African Qualifying Tournament in Cairo, seeking their bid for the Athens Olympics] (in Arabic). Al-Ahram. 7 January 2004. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  4. Lin, Chieh-yu (28 August 2004). "Team Taiwan takes silver in taekwondo". Taipei Times. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  5. "Taekwondo – Men's Featherweight (68kg/150lbs) Repechage Round 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 12 August 2004. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  6. "Taekwondo: Caliskan endgültig out" [Taekwondo: Caliskan is finally out] (in German). Der Standard. 29 August 2004. Retrieved 28 December 2014.


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