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Anwar Mesbah, 85, Egyptian weightlifter and Olympic champion (1936).
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|Anwar Mesbah (Egyptian Arabic: انور مصباح; April 8, 1913 – November 25, 1998) was an Egyptian weightlifter.
He competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin.
Along with his compatriot weightlifter Khadr El-Touni's middleweight class gold medal, Mesbah won a gold medal for Egypt in the lightweight class, sharing the gold medal with Robert Fein with whom he tied, by lifting a record 342.5 kg.
Born in Alexandria, Mesbah was considered a great athlete of his time.
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