Karam Gaber

Karam Gaber

Gaber (first L to R) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medal record
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Representing  Egypt
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens 96 kg
Silver medal – second place 2012 London 84 kg
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2002 Moscow 96 kg
Silver medal – second place 2003 Créteil 96 kg
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 2001 Tunis 97 kg
Gold medal – first place 2005 Almería 96 kg
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Bari 97 kg

Karam Ibrahim Gaber (Egyptian Arabic: كرم ابراهيم جابر, born 1 September 1979) is an Egyptian Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the gold medal in the Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[1] Gaber won the silver medal at the 2003 World Championships. At the 2012 London Olympics, he won his second Olympic medal, winning a silver. He was suspended by United World Wrestling for two years in August 2015, because of a whereabouts failure during his doping test.[2] In February 2024, Gaber announced his retirement from Greco-Roman wrestling.

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Karam Gaber". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Egypt's best-ever Olympian Karam Gaber in twilight of troubled career - Ahram Online". english.ahram.org.eg. Retrieved 20 November 2020.