Maged Youssef (born 7 January 1978) is a sportsman 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 ...

. He competes in

archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a Bow and arrow, bow to shooting, shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting ...

. Youssef competed at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

in men's individual archery. He was defeated by

Dmytro Hrachov Dmytro Olehovych Hrachov ( Ukrainian: Дмитро Олегович Грачов; born 5 December 1983, in Lviv) is an athlete from Ukraine that competes in archery. Hrachov competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual a ...

( UKR) in the first round of elimination, placing 58th overall.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

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Youssef finished his ranking round with a total of 605 points. This gave him the 62nd seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced

Viktor Ruban Viktor Hennadiyovych Ruban (; born 24 May 1981 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is an Archery at the Summer Olympics, Olympic gold medal winning former World Archery Rankings#Number one ranked archers, world ...

in the first round. Ruban won 111-96 and went on to win the gold medal in the tournament.Athlete biography: Maged Youssef
, beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 17 2008

References

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