Today Oldest Olympians is continuing to finalize our look into mystery competitors from the 1948 London Olympics for whom we lack both a date of birth and confirmation as to whether they are alive or deceased. Given the time that has passed, nearly all of these Olympians would be at least 90 years old, but there is a possibility that some are still alive. Today we wanted to continue looking at the many Egyptian participants who meet this definition and, having covered wrestlers last time, we are going to look at the other physical strength sports: weightlifting and boxing.

(Ibrahim El-Dessouki, pictured at Getty Images)

Since weightlifting was a popular sport in Egypt, in which they found much success at the time, we have only one mystery in this category: Ibrahim El-Dessouki. El-Dessouki represented his country as a featherweight in London and placed 12^th, in a category won by his compatriot Mahmoud Fayad. We have unable to uncover additional information about him outside of the Olympics, and thus we suspect that this might not have been his commonly used name in Arabic. He may have been Ibrahim Moussa of Alexandria or Ibrahim Abduh of Port Said, both of whom were active at this time, but we have not located any conclusive evidence.

(Ezz El-Din Nasir)

We know a little more about our two mystery boxing competitors. The first, Ezz El-Din Nasir, was eliminated in round one of the lightweight tournament. He had been national champion in that division earlier in the year, and was from Cairo. The second, sometimes referred to as Mohamed Hamouda, was actually Muhsin Hamouda, also of Cairo and also national champion in his category in 1948. He was defeated in round one of the featherweight competition, and we have not been able to learn more about either of these fighters after their Olympic appearances.