Mohamed Monir (swimmer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Olympic swimmer
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Place of Birth: Giza, Giza Governorate, Egypt
About Mohamed Monir (swimmer)
- Mohamed El-Zanaty Monir (Arabic: ???? ???? ? ????????; born February 1, 1984 in Giza) is an Egyptian swimmer, who specialized in open water marathon.
- He represented his nation Egypt at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has claimed a bronze medal in the 25 km open water race (5:19:23.23) at the 2007 FINA World Championships in Melbourne, Australia.Mohammad competed as a lone open water swimmer for Egypt in the inaugural men's 10 km marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
- Leading up to the Games, he finished with a nineteenth place time of 1:54:36.4, but managed to pick up the continental spot as Africa's representative at the FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships in Seville, Spain.
- Farther from the leaders by about ten body lengths, Monir nearly pulled from the end of the field to claim the twentieth spot out of twenty-four entrants in 1:55:17.0, three minutes and twenty-five seconds (3:25) behind eventual gold medalist Maarten van der Weijden of the Netherlands.
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