Kamal Mahgoub Mahmoud (10 December 1921 – 9 February 2007) was a bantamweight weightlifter from

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

who set a world record in the snatch in 1950. He won two silver and three bronze medals at the world championships in 1949–1955 and placed fifth at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in ...

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1921 births 2007 deaths Olympic weightlifters for Egypt Weightlifters at the 1952 Summer Olympics World Weightlifting Championships medalists 20th-century Egyptian sportsmen 21st-century Egyptian people {{Egypt-weightlifting-bio-stub