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Khadr El-Touni

1915 - 1956

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Khedr Sayed El Touny (Egyptian Arabic: خضر التوني; December 15, 1916 – September 22, 1956) was an Egyptian weightlifter. He was ranked number one on the list of history's 50 greatest weightlifters issued by the International Weightlifting Federation, until Turkey's Naim Süleymanoğlu surpassed the Egyptian to top the list at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Khadr El-Touni is the 1,142nd most popular athlete (down from 1,068th in 2019), the 522nd most popular biography from Egypt (up from 534th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Egyptian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Khadr El-Touni ranks 1,142 out of 6,025Before him are Muriel Freeman, Ricardo Delgado, Jack Beresford, Sven Fahlman, Ursula Donath, and Annegret Richter. After him are Charles King, Halvard Hanevold, Petter Hugsted, Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak, Claudia Losch, and Frank Hansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Khadr El-Touni ranks 219Before him are O. W. Fischer, Alice Faye, David Diamond, Heinz Körvers, Memphis Slim, and Gary Merrill. After him are Pavel Kadochnikov, José Antonio Rodríguez, Anita Lizana, Siegfried Purner, Felix Kaspar, and Brenda Marshall. Among people deceased in 1956, Khadr El-Touni ranks 176Before him are Pierre Allemane, Marie Juchacz, Nikolai Panin, Fernand Jourdant, Georg Brustad, and Pyotr Konchalovsky. After him are Benjamin Glazer, Leonard Peterson, Otto Scheff, Christian Gitsham, Artur Văitoianu, and Billy Bishop.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Khadr El-Touni ranks 522 out of 642Before him are Essam El Hadary (1973), Theognostus of Alexandria (210), Hesham Qandil (1962), Gamal Mubarak (1963), Ahmed Hassan (1975), and Iah (-2200). After him are Pope Agrippinus of Alexandria (100), Gamal El-Ghitani (1945), Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha (1888), Zakaria Goneim (1905), Ibrahim Shams (1917), and Mohamed Zidan (1981).

Among ATHLETES In Egypt

Among athletes born in Egypt, Khadr El-Touni ranks 2Before him are Mahmoud Fayad (1925). After him are Ibrahim Shams (1917), Kim Min-seok (null), Mamdouh Elssbiay (1984), Fares El-Bakh (1998), Tamer Bayoumi (1982), Ihab Abdelrahman (1989), Mohamed Elsayed (1973), Michael Hicks (null), Eduardo Aguirre (null), and Feryal Abdelaziz (1999).