Sayed Hamdi

A member of Zamalek’s star gymnastics team during the 1950s, Sayed Hamdi represented Egypt in the tournament at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, where he had a best individual finish of joint-122nd (alongside Austria’s Friedrich Fetz) in the horizontal bar. Additionally, with the Egyptian team, he was 16th in the all-around. He had better luck at the 1955 Mediterranean Games, where he won a bronze medal with the national squad in the team all-around, and he improved that to gold in 1959. By career, he was an engineer who owned his own firm in Cairo, but he also served as president of the Cairo regional gymnastics federation for many years.