Amr El-Gaiar

Amr El-Gaiar (Arabic: عمرو الجيار‎; born 19 February 1974 in Cairo) is an Egyptian sport shooter.[2] He was selected to compete for Egypt at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also won a gold medal in skeet shooting at the 2003 African Championships in Pretoria, South Africa.[1] A full-fledged member of the Egyptian Shooting Federation, El-Gaiar trains under national head coach and five-time Olympian Mohamed Khorshed at Doki Shooting Club in his native Cairo.[3]

Amr El-Gaiar
Personal information
Full nameAmr El-Gaiar
NationalityEgyptian
Born (1974-02-19) 19 February 1974
Cairo, Egypt
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)Skeet (SK125)
ClubDoki Shooting Club[1]
Coached byMohamed Khorshed[1]

El-Gaiar qualified for the Egyptian team in the men's skeet at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He had registered a minimum qualifying score of 117 to join with his fellow shooter and then incoming three-time Olympian Mostafa Hamdy, and fill in the second Olympic quota for Egypt from his successful top finish at the African Championships less than a year earlier.[1][4] Al-Gaiar shot 115 targets out of a possible 125 in the qualifying round to force a three-way tie with Great Britain's Richard Brickell and the Netherlands' Jan-Cor van der Greef for thirty-fourth place from an immense field of forty-one shooters.[5]

References
  1. "ISSF Profile – Amr El-Gaiar". ISSF. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Amr El-Gaiar". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  3. "A champion at the end". Al-Ahram Weekly. 25 December 2003. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  4. "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  5. "Shooting: Men's Skeet Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.


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