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Karam Gaber

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كرم جابر

Alexandria

Egyptian Greco-Roman wrestler, born in Alexandria in 1979. He won gold in the 96 kg event at the Athens 2004 Olympics — Egypt's first Olympic gold medal since 1948 — and silver at London 2012, and carried Egypt's flag at Beijing 2008.

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wrestler
Region
Egypt & Nile
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Alexandria

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    Summary

    Karam Ibrahim Gaber is an Egyptian Greco-Roman wrestler, born in Alexandria on 1 September 1979. 1 2 He won the gold medal in the men's Greco-Roman 96 kg event at the Athens 2004 Olympics and a silver medal at London 2012. 3

    Career

    Gaber won silver at the 2003 World Championships. 3 At Athens 2004 he won the final 12-1 against Ramaz Nozadze of Georgia, having beaten Mehmet Özal of Turkey 11-0 in the semi-finals; it was Egypt's second Greco-Roman wrestling gold, after 1928, and the Arabic article frames it as Egypt's first Olympic gold medal of any kind since the weightlifter Ibrahim Shams's title in 1948. 3 1 On 31 December 2004 he fought a mixed martial arts bout against Kazuyuki Fujita at K-1's Dynamite event. 3 He was Egypt's flag bearer at the Beijing 2008 opening ceremony but did not reach the quarter-finals. 3 At London 2012 he won his second Olympic medal, a silver. 3 In 2015 he was given a two-year ban for an anti-doping rule violation relating to whereabouts failures, which was upheld on appeal. 3 In February 2024 he announced his retirement, an injury having kept him out of the African Olympic qualification tournament for Paris 2024. 3

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    Alexandria

    People and things also explored

    Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300· Al-Qurtubi hears part of al-Mufhim from its author at Alexandria, 656/1258· the Alexandria rising and its recovery (25 AH)· The French take Alexandria (Muharram 1213 / July 1798)· The Conquest of Alexandria· The Great Earthquake of 180 AH· Ibn Jubayr reaches Alexandria· Ibn Taymiyya's exile in a tower at Alexandria, 709/1309

    Sources

    1. Karam Gaber — Arabic Wikipedia
    2. Karam Gaber — Wikidata
    3. Karam Gaber — English Wikipedia
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    islam.museum contributors. “Karam Gaber”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/karam-gaber/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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    Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300

    Al-Dhahabi travelled in quest of hadith: he heard at Baalbek from Ibn Khulayk ibn Ulwan and Zaynab bint Umar ibn al-Kindi, at Mecca from al-Tuzari, at Aleppo from Shawkar al-Zayni, at Nablus from al-Imad ibn Badran, at Alexandria from Abu al-Hasan al-Iraqi and Yahya al-Sawwaf, and stayed longest at Cairo under Ibn Mansur al-Ifriqi and chiefly Taqi al-Din Ibn Daqiq al-Id — until his teachers passed 1,300, whose biographies he collected in his Mu'jam. Ibn Hajar notes he produced some thirty travel parts of his own.