Mohamed Monir (swimmer)

Mohamed Monir

Personal information
Full name	Mohamed El-Zanaty Monir
Nationality	Egypt
Born	1 February 1984 Giza, Egypt
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Open water
Medal record Men's swimming Representing  Egypt World Championships 2007 Melbourne 25 km open water

Mohamed El-Zanaty Monir (Arabic: محمد منير ش الزناتى‎; born February 1, 1984 in Giza) is an Egyptian swimmer, who specialized in open water marathon.^[1] He represented his nation Egypt at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has claimed a bronze medal in the 25 km open water race (5:19:23.23) at the 2007 FINA World Championships in Melbourne, Australia.^[2][3]

Mohammad competed as a lone open water swimmer for Egypt in the inaugural men's 10 km marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he finished with a nineteenth place time of 1:54:36.4, but managed to pick up the continental spot as Africa's representative at the FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships in Seville, Spain.^[4] Farther from the leaders by about ten body lengths, Monir nearly pulled from the end of the field to claim the twentieth spot out of twenty-four entrants in 1:55:17.0, three minutes and twenty-five seconds (3:25) behind eventual gold medalist Maarten van der Weijden of the Netherlands.^[5]

References

1. "Mohamed Monir". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
2. "Russia's Yury Kudinov Claims Men's 25K Gold at Worlds; Russia Wins Top Team Honors in Open Water". Swimming World Magazine. 24 March 2007. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
3. "Egypt's unsung Olympic heroes". Daily News Egypt. 16 June 2008. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
4. Munatones, Steven (4 May 2008). "FINA World Open Water Championships: Russia Revisited, Hackett Disqualification Report". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
5. "Swimming: Men's Marathon 10km". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 5 January 2013.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile