Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud
Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud ( born June 10, 1986 in Damietta ) is an Egyptian sprinter.
He played football in his youth and was discovered in early 2003 for the Athletics, as he ran 100 meters immediately before a national school competition in 10.80 seconds. Just two months later he was sent to the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, where he though about 60 m in the flow was eliminated, but with 6.93 s set a national junior record. In July he reached at the World Youth Championships in Sherbrooke in his first competition ever over 200 m the semi-finals. About the same distance he was three weeks later African Vice - junior champion.
In 2004, he traveled with a scholarship to Dekalb International Training Centre in Atlanta, where he was coached by Innocent Egbunike. After an injury break in the summer he was in September of Arab Vice - junior champion over 100 m with the national record of 10.49 s After he won at the Games of La Francophonie in 2005 over 100 m bronze, he had a start in the final over 200 m refrain because he fell ill with malaria.
At the Track - Africa Championships 2006 Bambous he was sixth over 100 m. The Egyptian Championships he won the 100m with the national record of 10.48 s and about 200 m in wind -aided 20.75 s
In 2007 he had a whole series of national records. First, he was runner- Arab over 100 m in 10.45 s The Pan-African Games in Algiers he put in the semifinals over 200 m with 20.83 s his first national record over this distance on. In the final, he was not able to repeat this performance; He was fourth in 21.07 s Another breakthrough came at the Universiade in Bangkok, where he 's won the 200m in 20.74 and thus for the two weeks later held IAAF World Championships in Osaka, as well as for the Olympic Games qualified in 2008 in Beijing. It was the first gold medal for Egypt at a Universiade. In advance of Osaka, he improved his record to 20.65 s; in the quarter- final, he was eliminated with 20.72 s. End of the season he 's scored a double victory over 100 m and 200 m at the Pan Arab Games in Cairo, each again with a record of 10.38 s and 20.64 ( in the run scored ).
The following year, he retired at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia in 2008, despite a national record of 6.69 in the semi-finals. Already in advance, a record he had succeeded with 6.78 s. The Africa Championships in Addid Ababa began auspiciously when he ran the record time of 10.35 to 100-meter lead, but he had to do without because of an injury to other races after the semi-finals. With new best times of 10.33 s and 20.62 s, he traveled to the Olympic Games, where he penetrated about 200 meters into the quarterfinals. There, however, was enough for even his new record of 20.55 s not for getting ahead.
In 2009 he won at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara over 200 m. In the Universiade in Belgrade he won two silver medals over 100 m and 200 m and placed over both distances on a record ( 10.30 s, achieved in semis; 20.52 s ). In his efforts to qualify over 100 m for the World Championships in Berlin, he injured his right quadriceps. He started yet in Berlin more than 200 m, but different in the run- off.
In February 2010, he enrolled in the University of Northern Colorado, where he became trained under Kevin Galbraith and Karim Abdel Wahab. In April at the Mt SAC Relays with a 10.22 s it took a further leap in performance. In the Africa Championships in Nairobi, he was fourth on 100 m in 10.18 s over 200 m, he became the first male North Africans in general, which was at the distance African champions; with 20.36 s he broke the record of 20.41 s Arab, the Qatari driver Talal Mansour had set up in 1994.
In the World Cup 2011 in Daegu, he impressed in the run with 20.44 s, but broke shortly thereafter together because of a febrile illness, which he had suffered five days beforehand. In the semifinal round, which took place on the same day he resigned as the last of his race. Not yet fully recovered, he joined nine days later at the Pan-African Games in Maputo over 100 m at. In the semi final with 10.13 s he managed another record, in the final he won in 10.20 s
In 2012 he won at the Africa Cup Porto- Novo each silver over 100 m and 200 m, but came at the Olympic Games in London on two distances do not have the lead out.
Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud is 1,78 m tall and weighs 71 kg. He starts for the club Al Ahly and is supervised by manager André Thomson.
Bests
- 60 m (Hall ): 6.69 s, March 7, 2008, Valencia
- 100 m: 10.13 s 12 September 2011, Maputo (Egyptian record )
- 200 m: 20.36 s, August 1, 2010 Nairobi (Egyptian record )