During the 1930s, Ahmed Ibrahim Kamel was active in swimming and water polo, but was best known as a diver. The highlight of his career in this regard came when he was selected to represent Egypt at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he placed 19th in the springboard event. Although he continued competing, he also took up coaching both swimming and diving shortly after the Games and was one of the earliest trainers of future British Olympic Denise Newman while he worked at Cairo’s Maadi Sporting Club. The onset of World War II limited his coaching opportunities, but he eventually became a well-known architect in the Cairo region, have earned a degree in civil engineering from Egyptian University (now Cairo University) in the late 1930s.
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