page_title: Khadr El-Touni
hierarchical_section_title: Khadr El-Touni
caption_attribution_description: English: Khedr el-Touni - Berlin Olympics 1936
context_page_description: Khedr Sayed El Touny was an Egyptian weightlifter, widely regarded as the best weightlifter of all time. He was ranked number one on the list of history's 50 greatest weightlifters issued by the International Weightlifting Federation, until Turkey's Naim Süleymanoğlu surpassed the Egyptian to top the list at the 1996 Games in Atlanta.
  Eltouny began practicing the sport at a young age along with the students of Shobra School. One day, they placed two stones weighing 40 kg each on a broomstick; only Eltouny succeeded in lifting it. Determined to succeed in this area, Eltouny continued to weightlift at various sporting clubs in the Cairo area. By 1936, Eltouny had set a world record for his class so inconceivable, that the International Weightlifting Federation refused to acknowledge it, citing it was an impossible feat.
context_section_description: Khedr Sayed El Touny (Arabic: خضر التوني‎; December 15, 1916 – September 22, 1956) was an Egyptian weightlifter, widely regarded as the best weightlifter of all time. He was ranked number one on the list of history's 50 greatest weightlifters issued by the International Weightlifting Federation, until Turkey's Naim Süleymanoğlu surpassed the Egyptian to top the list at the 1996 Games in Atlanta.
  Eltouny began practicing the sport at a young age along with the students of Shobra School. One day, they placed two stones weighing 40 kg each on a broomstick; only Eltouny succeeded in lifting it. Determined to succeed in this area, Eltouny continued to weightlift at various sporting clubs in the Cairo area.  By 1936, Eltouny had set a world record for his class so inconceivable, that the International Weightlifting Federation refused to acknowledge it, citing it was an impossible feat.
caption: Khadr El-Touni at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
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