Nabawi El-Ashram

A Coptic Christian, Nabawi El-Ashram first represented Egypt internationally in 1975 and attended that year’s Mediterranean Games, where he was fourth in the Greco-Roman middleweight division. He won his first major international medal in that event, gold, at the 1978 All-Africa Games and continued to be successful at regional and continental championships. Most notably, he took silver and bronze in the Greco-Roman and freestyle middleweight tournaments respectively at the 1979 Mediterranean Games, while at the African Championships he took gold in Greco-Roman and freestyle in 1982 and 1984 and earned an additional gold in freestyle in 1985. He was also runner-up in the freestyle category at the 1983 World Military Championships.

El-Ashram competed only once at the Olympics, in 1984 in Los Angeles, where he was sixth in Greco-Roman and also competed in freestyle. Domestically, he was runner-up in the middleweight, Greco-Roman division and winner in the middleweight, freestyle category at the 1979 Egyptian championships. He retired from active competition after the 1985 season and later worked as a professor in the faculty of physical education at Menoufia University.