Nagui Asaad

Nagui Asaad

Personal information
Born	12 September 1945
Medal record Men'sAthletics RepresentingEgypt All-Africa Games 1973 Lagos Shot Put 1978 Algiers Shot Put 1973 Lagos Discus Mediterranean Games 1971 Izmir Shot Put 1971 Izmir Discus 1979 Split Shot Put

Nagui Asaad Youssef (a.k.a. Nagy Assaad Youssef)ناجى أسعد, (born 12 September 1945), is a retiredEgyptianathlete (track and field) who represented Egypt in international athletics events in the 1970s and early 1980s inshot putanddiscus throw.

Biography

Nagui Asaad was born on 12 September 1945 to aCopticfamily in the north of Egypt.He moved toCairowhere he graduated from the Faculty of Sport (Physical) Education for Boys atHelwan University.He later worked as a member of teaching staff in the same faculty after graduation. He obtainedPhDin Physical Education, and currently works as a professorin the same faculty.

Nagui Asaad played in theBasketballteam ofAl AhlySporting club between 1966 and 1969then he joined the Athletic team at the same club and became the Egyptian champion inShot Put.

Along with his colleaguesHisham Greiss,Hassan Ahmed HamadandMohamed Naguib Hamedformed 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 inBahrainas a coach for the national Athletic team and returned to Egypt in the 1990s to work in the same field with the Egyptian national teamas the squad's technical manager.

In 1999 as he was setting up a throwing school in Egypt, he recruited Discus throwerOmar Ahmed El Ghazalyand hammer throwerMohsen El Ananywho 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 ofEgypt's Athletics Federationsince its 1910 founding.

Achievements

Nagui Asaadremains the only Egyptian athlete (track and field) to win Gold medals in three major championships, namely;All Africa Games,Mediterranean GamesandAfrican Championships in Athletics.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.

Nagui Asaad andAbdel Herin(1955 Mediterranean Games Marathon) remain to date the only two EgyptianTrack and fieldathletes to have won a Gold medal each in theMediterranean Games.

Internationally he ranks as number 130 of the world's 150 all-time best throwsshot putby 20.71 Metre.

Championships record throws

Nagui Asaad held the championship record of theAfrican Championshipssince1982 African Championships in Athletics,with a throw of 20.44 metres.until2004 African Championships in AthleticswhenJanus Robbertsachieved 21.02.

His record shot put throw in All Africa games of 19.48 stood since1973 All-Africa Gamesas the championship record for twenty six years untilBurger Lambrechtsbroke it at the1999 All-Africa Games.

Between 1971 and 1979 Nagui Asaad held the championship record of theMediterranean Gamesin Shot Put with a throw of 20.19 Meters, this record was broken byVladimir MilićfromYugoslaviain 1979.

Shot Put Medals

• Twice African champion inShot Put,1979, 1982.
• Gold medallist in shot put of the1971 Mediterranean Games,İzmir (Turkey)
• Twice Gold medallist in Shot Put of theAll Africa Games,1973,Nigeria,1978,Algeria
• Twice Gold medallist in Shot Put of East and Central African Championships 1981, 1982.
• 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
• Silver medallist in shot put of the1979 Mediterranean Games,Split, Yugoslavia

Year	Tournament	Venue	Result	Event
1971	Mediterranean Games	İzmir,Turkey	1st	Shot Put
1973	All-Africa Games	Lagos,Nigeria	1st	Shot Put
1978	All-Africa Games	Algiers,Algeria	1st	Shot Put
1979	African Championship	Dakar,Senegal	1st	Shot Put
	Mediterranean Games	Split,Yugoslavia	2nd	Shot Put
1980	Olympic Boycott Games	Philadelphia,United States	1st	Shot Put
1982	African Championship	Cairo,Egypt	1st	Shot Put

Discus medals

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

Year	Tournament	Venue	Result	Event
1971	Mediterranean Games	İzmir,Turkey	2nd	Discus
1973	All-Africa Games	Lagos,Nigeria	2nd	Discus

Olympic Games

Despite multiple attempts, Nagui Asaad never competed in any of the Summer Olympic Games

• 1968 Summer Olympics,Nagui Asaad missed qualifying for the Egyptian Olympic team - by two centimeters.
• 1972 Summer Olympics,he went with the Egyptian team toMunich,but was withdrawn by his government after theMunich massacrewhen members of theIsraeli Olympic teamwere takenhostageand eventually murdered by the Islamic terrorist groupBlack September.
• 1976 Summer Olympics,after arrival to Montréal, Egypt withdrew from the Games as part of theanti-apartheidboycott. This was due to that in1972and1976a large number of African countries threatened the IOC with a boycott to force them to ban South Africa and Rhodesia, because of theirsegregationistregimes. New Zealand was also one of the African boycott targets, due to the "All Blacks"(national rugby team) having touredapartheid-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.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.Athletes fromCameroon,Egypt,Morocco,andTunisiacompeted 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.

See also

• Egyptian athletes
• List of prominent Copts
• Athletics at the 1973 All-Africa Games
• Athletics at the 1978 All-Africa Games
• 1979 African Championships in Athletics
• 1982 African Championships in Athletics
• List of Egyptians
• Helwan University
• African Championships in Athletics
• Mediterranean Games
• All Africa Games
• List of champions of Africa of athletics

External links

• African Championships in Athletics results ongbrathleticswebsite
• Mediterranean Games Athletic resultsgbrathleticswebsite
• All Africa Games Athletics resultsgbrathleticswebsite
• gbrathleticswebsite East and Central African Championships results
• GBR Athletics Egyptian athletics championships winners since 1981
• Article on Arabs in 1971 Mediterranean Games Izmir
• Helwan University Faculty of Physical Education webpage