Fares El-Bakh

Fares Ibrahim
Personal information
Full nameFares Ibrahim Sayed Hassouna El-Bakh
NicknameMeso Hassouna[1]
NationalityQatari
Born (1998-06-04) 4 June 1998 (age 26)
Egypt
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[2]
Weight95.95 kg (212 lb)
Sport
CountryQatar
SportWeightlifting
Event–96 kg
Coached byIbrahim El-Bakh
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Snatch: 178 kg (2019)
  • Clean and jerk: 228 kg (2019)
  • Total: 404 kg (2019)
Medal record
Men's weightlifting
Representing  Qatar
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo –96 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Bogotá –102 kg
Silver medal – second place 2019 Pattaya –96 kg
Silver medal – second place 2021 Tashkent –96 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Anaheim –94 kg
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Jakarta –94 kg
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Manama 102 kg
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tashkent 102 kg
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Tokyo –85 kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Tashkent –94 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Tbilisi –85 kg
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Fares Ibrahim Saed Hassouna El-Bakh (Arabic: فارس ابراهيم سعد حسونة الباخ, born 4 June 1998), commonly known as Meso Hassouna, is a Qatari weightlifter of Egyptian origin. He is an Olympic Champion, World Champion and two time Junior World Champion competing in the 85 kg, and 94 kg categories until 2018 and 96 kg and 102 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[3]

He holds the junior world record in the clean & jerk (225 kg) and total (397 kg) in the 96 kg division. His father, Ibrahim Hassouna, represented Egypt at three consecutive Olympics from 1984 to 1992.

  1. ^ "Athlete Biography: ELBAKH, Fares Ibrahim E. H." IWF.net. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Fares Ibrahim E. H. Elbakh". Rio2016.com. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  3. ^ "PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 96 kg" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 December 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.