Karam Gaber

Karam Ibrahim Gaber (Arabic: كرم إبراهيم جابر‎, born 1 September 1979 in Alexandria) is an Egyptian Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the gold medal in the Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics,[1] and won the silver medal at the 2003 World Championships. At the 2012 London Olympics, he won a silver medal. He was suspended by United World Wrestling for two years in August 2015, because of a "whereabouts failure" during his doping test.[2]

Karam Gaber

Gaber (first L to R) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medal record
Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling
Representing  Egypt
Olympic Games
2004 Athens 96 kg
2012 London 84 kg
World Championships
2002 Moscow 96 kg
2003 Créteil 96 kg
Mediterranean Games
2005 Almería 96 kg

Career

Gaber won with a gap of 12 points (12–1) at the 2004 Olympics Greco-Roman finals. He competed against Ramaz Nozadze of Georgia in a historic match. Gaber also won with a huge leap over Mehmet Özal in the semifinals with 11 points (11–0). This is the second gold medal for Egypt in Greco-Roman wrestling since 1928 Summer Olympics

Gaber competed in a mixed martial arts match against Kazuyuki Fujita (Greco-Roman Wrestling) at K-1's Dynamite event on December 31, 2004.

Gaber was Egypt's flagbearer at the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. However, he failed to qualify for the quarter finals in Beijing. He won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[3]

2015 He was getting ready and favorite to win another world gold as well the 2016 Olympics. with long time personal coach Jakob Panotas. Karam Gaber was suspended by United World Wrestling for two years in August 2015 because of a "whereabouts failure" during a miss call/location for his doping test.[4]

Mixed martial arts record
Professional record breakdown
1 match 0 wins 1 loss
By knockout 0 1
By submission 0 0
By decision 0 0
Draws 0
No contests 0
Res. Record Opponent Method Event Date Round Time Location Notes
Loss 0–1 Kazuyuki Fujita KO (punch) K-1 PREMIUM 2004 Dynamite!! December 31, 2004 1 1:07

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Karam Gaber". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
  2. "Egypt's best-ever Olympian Karam Gaber in twilight of troubled career - Ahram Online". english.ahram.org.eg. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  3. "London 2012 – Wrestling – Men's 84 kg Greco-Roman". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
Olympic Games
Preceded by
Ali Ibrahim		 Flagbearer for  Egypt
Beijing 2008		 Succeeded by
Hesham Mesbah
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