Hamada Mohamed
Hamada Mohamed, also known as Mohamed Ahmed Hamada, is an Egyptian middle-distance runner. He represented Egypt at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Mohamed holds multiple national track records for Egypt.
Running career
One of Mohamed's first international appearances was at the 2010 [IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race|2010 IAAF World Cross Country Championships], where he finished the Junior men's race in 28:25, the 113th of 118 finishers. Hamada would later produce much livelier results on the track.At the 2011 Arab Athletics Championships, Mohamed finished second in the 1,500 metres race, recording a time of 3:59.15. Later that same year, at the 2011 [Pan Arab Games], Mohamed ran the Athletics at the [2011 Pan Arab Games – Results|800 metres], finishing the finals round in fifth place of six finishers, in a time of 1:48.08.
Due to his promising results even though he was only a teenager, Mohamed was selected by Egypt to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he ran in the Athletics at the [2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres|men's 800 metres] where he finished 8th in his semi-finals heat with a time of 1:48:18.
Mohamed then ran in the first heat of the 2013 [World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres|men's 800 metres at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics], barely missing qualification to the next round, although he ran a great race against the likes of Marcin Lewandowski and Giordano Benedetti.