Nagui Asaad

Nagui Asaad

Nagui Asaad Youssef (a.k.a. Nagy Assaad Youssef) ناجى أسعد, (born September 12, 1945[1]), is a retired Egyptian athlete (track and field) who represented Egypt in international athletics events in the 1970s and early 1980s in shot put and discus throw.

Biography

Nagui Asaad was born to a Coptic family in the north of Egypt, then moved to Cairo where he graduated from The Faculty of Sport (Physical) Education for Boys at Helwan University, following that he worked as a member of teaching staff in the same faculty after graduation. During his work he obtained a PhD Degree in Physical education, and he currently works as a professor[2] in the same faculty.

Nagui Asaad played in the Basketball team of El Ahly Sporting club between 1966 and 1969 [3] then he joined the Athletic team at the same club and became the Egyptian champion in Shot Put.

Along with his colleagues Hisham Greiss, Hassan Ahmed Hamad and Mohamed Naguib Hamed formed 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 in Bahrain as a coach for the national Athletic team and returned to Egypt in the 1990s to work in the same field with the Egyptian national team [4] as the squad's technical manager.[5]

In 1999 as he was setting up a throwing school in Egypt, he recruited Discus thrower Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly and hammer thrower Mohsen El Anany [6] who 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 of Egypt's Athletics Federation since its 1910 founding.[4]

Achievements

Nagui Asaad remains the only Egyptian athlete (track and field) to win Gold medals in three major championships, namely; All Africa Games,[7] Mediterranean Games[8] and African Championships in Athletics.[9] He has won a total of three medals at the Mediterranean Games one gold and two silver.[10] He was the first Egyptian to exceed 20 metres in shot put throws.[11]

Nagui Asaad and Abdel Herin (1955 Mediterranean Games Marathon) remain to date the only two Egyptian Track and field athletes to have won a Gold medal each in the Mediterranean Games.

Internationally he ranks as number 130 of the world's 150 all-time best throws shot put [12] by 20.71 Metre.

Championships record throws

Nagui Asaad held the championship record of the African Championships since 1982 African Championships in Athletics, with a throw of 20.44 metres.[13] until 2004 African Championships in Athletics when Janus Robberts achieved 21.02.

His record shot put throw in All Africa games of 19.48 stood since 1973 All-Africa Games [14] as the championship record for twenty six years until Burger Lambrechts broke it at the 1999 All-Africa Games.

Between 1971 and 1979 Nagui Asaad held the championship record of the Mediterranean Games in Shot Put with a throw of 20.19 Meters, this record was broken by Vladimir Milić from Yugoslavia in 1979.

Shot Put Medals

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, USA 1st Shot Put
1982 African Championship Cairo, Egypt 1st Shot Put

Discus medals

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 [22]

See also

External links

References

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  2. Faculty of Physical Education website in Arabic
  3. Alaraby article
  4. 1 2 Al-Ahram Weekly article
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  6. IAAF on Omar El Ghazaly
  7. Egyptian sports
  8. Mediterraean games athletics results on GBR Athletics website
  9. 1 2 African Athletic Champions, GBR Athletics website
  10. Mediterranean Games – Past Medallists GBR Athletics.
  11. Masress.com
  12. 150 best Shot Put
  13. African Championships GBR Athletics
  14. All-Africa Games - GBR Athletics
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