Mazen Metwaly
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Mazen Muhammad Aziz Metwaly |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Born | March 14, 1990 Jeddah |
| Height | 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Club | Southern Illinois Salukis, Carbondale (USA) |
Mazen Mohamed Aziz Metwaly (Arabic: مازن متولي; born 14 March 1990) is an Egyptian professional swimmer, specialising in open water swimming.
At the 2007 Open Water Swimming World Cup, he won a bronze medal. In 2008, he winning the event at Lac Saint-Jean. That year he also won one silver and one bronze medal and finished third overall in the World Cup.[1]
Mazen Aziz won the Dakar-Gorée crossing at the 2006 African Swimming Championships in Dakar.[2] At these championships, he also won a bronze medal in the 4x200m freestyle.[3]
At the 2008 African Swimming Championships in Johannesburg, he won a silver medal in the 5km open water race.[3]
He finished ninth in the 10 km open water swimming event at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome.[1]
He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Mazen Mohamed AZIZ
- ^ "Un Egyptien et une Sud africaine gagnent la traversée Dakar-Gorée". archives.aps.sn (in French). 17 September 2006.
- ^ a b "Olympians Who Won a Medal at the African Swimming Championships". www.olympedia.org.
- ^ London 2012 profile Archived 2012-08-10 at the Wayback Machine
