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| Born | (1999-02-21)21 February 1999 (age 26) Alexandria, Egypt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Turkey(2020–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former country represented |  Egypt (2007–2017) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adem Asil (born 21 February 1999) is an Egyptian-born Turkish maleartistic gymnast. He represented Turkey at the2020 and2024 Olympic Games.[2] He is the2022 World Champion on still rings and is the2023 and2025 European all-around champion.
BornAbdelrahman Elzamzamy, he changed his name toAbdelrahman Elgamal when he moved to Turkey and competed under that name at a 2020 European Championship. In 2021, he changed it again toAdem Asil, as a response to the condition of changing a foreign name into Turkish, to obtainnaturalization.[3][4]
Abdelrahman Elzamzamy was born inAlexandria, Egypt on 21 February 1999 to a middle-class Egyptian family.[5][6]
A member of the Egyptian national team, Elzamzamy took part in theParis Challenge Cup in France and theVarna Challenge Cup in Bulgaria. He later competed at theWorld Championships inMontreal where he finished 37th in the all-around during qualification and did not advance to any event finals.[5]
Shortly after the 2017 World Championships, Elzamzamy's coach announced that he was moving to Turkey and invited Elzamzamy to showcase himself in front of the Turkish national coaches. They were impressed with "his work ethic, his evident strength, and his unshakable belief in himself" and invited him to train with theTurkish national team.[1] Elzamzamy moved to Turkey leaving his parents in Egypt while continuing training gymnastics in Turkey. After becoming a naturalized citizen in 2019 theInternational Gymnastics Federation approved his request for nationality change; however it wouldn't take effect until 2020.[7]
Elgamal competed for Turkey the first time at the2020 Baku World Cup.[5] He later was chosen to represent Turkey at the2020 European Championships inMersin.[2] He helped Turkey win silver in the team event.[8] Additionally he finished fourth on rings and horizontal bar.
Elgamal began competing under the name Adem Asil in 2021. At theEuropean Championships Asil finished fifth in the all-around during qualifications and therefore earned an individual Olympic berth to compete at the postponed2020 Olympic Games. He suffered an injury during the all-around final and did not finish. However he competed during the horizontal bar final and won the bronze medal behindDavid Belyavskiy andAndy Toba. Asil next competed at theOsijek Challenge Cup and theDoha World Cup, picking up three medals at the former. At theOlympic Games Asil qualified to the all-around, rings, and vault finals. He finished fifteenth in the all-around, seventh on rings, and sixth on vault. Asil finished the year competing at theWorld Championships where he finished eleventh in the all-around.
Asil started the year competing at theWorld Cups in Cottbus, Baku, and Osijek. He competed at theMediterranean Games where he helped Turkey win gold in the team event. Individually Asil won gold in the all-around and on vault, silver on rings and horizontal bar behindİbrahim Çolak andMarios Georgiou respectively, and bronze on floor exercise.
Asil next competed at theIslamic Solidarity Games where he helped Turkey once again win gold in the team event. Individually he won gold in the all-around and on rings, silver on vault, and bronze on floor exercise. In August Asil competed at the2022 European Championships. On the first day of competition Asil won bronze in the all-around behindJoe Fraser and compatriotAhmet Önder. He helped Turkey win bronze in the team event and individually he won silver on rings behindEleftherios Petrounias.[9]
In September Asil competed at theParis World Challenge Cup. He won gold on both vault and rings.[10]
At theWorld Championships Asil helped Turkey finish eleventh during qualifications – their highest placement in history. Individually Asil won gold on rings, earning Turkey's second gold medal on the event afterİbrahim Çolak in2019.[11]
Asil competed at the2023 European Championships where he helped Turkey finish second as a team. Individually he won gold in the all-around, becoming the first Turkish gymnast to achieve the feat. During apparatus finals he won gold on rings and placed fifth on vault. Asil next competed at theWorld University Games where he helped the Turkish team finish ninth. Individually he won bronze on rings behindLan Xingyu andZou Jingyuan and placed fifth on vault.[12]
At the2023 World Championships Asil helped Turkey finish tenth as a team during qualifications. Although they did not qualify for the team final, theyqualified a full team to the 2024 Olympic Games for the first time.[13]
Asil competed at the2024 European Championships where he won bronze on rings behindEleftherios Petrounias andNikita Simonov. He was named to the team to compete at the2024 Olympic Games alongsideFerhat Arıcan,İbrahim Çolak,Emre Dodanlı, andAhmet Önder; they finished ninth during qualifications. Individually Asil qualified to the rings final where he finished fifth.[14]
Asil competed at theOsijek World Cup and theVarna World Challenge Cup where he won gold on rings at both and won silver on horizontal bar at the latter.[15][16] At the2025 European Championships Asil qualified to the all-around, rings, and horizontal bar finals. Additionally he qualified to the inauguralmixed team event alongside compatriotNazlı Savranbaşı; they finished 16th overall.[17] The following day Asil won his second European all-around title, finishing ahead ofLéo Saladino andKrisztofer Mészáros.[18] During event finals Asil won gold on rings, tied withEleftherios Petrounias, and finished fifth on horizontal bar.[19]
At the2025 World Championships, Asil only competed on rings. He won the silver medal behindDonnell Whittenburg of the United States.[20]
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| Year | Event | Team | AA | FX | PH | SR | VT | PB | HB |
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| 2017 | Varna Challenge Cup | 7 | 5 | ||||||
| World Championships | 37 |
| Year | Event | Team | AA | FX | PH | SR | VT | PB | HB |
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| 2019 | Turkish Championships |  | 5 | 4 |  | 5 | |||
| 2020 | Turkish Championships |  | | | | ||||
| Baku World Cup | | 7 | |||||||
| European Championships | | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| 2021 | Turkish Championships | | | 4 | | | 4 | | |
| European Championships | DNF | 6 | | ||||||
| Osijek Challenge Cup | 6 | | | | |||||
| Doha World Cup | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| Olympic Games | 15 | 7 | 6 | ||||||
| Turkish Team Championships | | | |||||||
| World Championships | 11 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Cottbus World Cup | 4 | | ||||||
| Baku World Cup | 8 | 6 | |||||||
| Osijek Challenge Cup | | | | 5 | |||||
| Mediterranean Games | | | | | | | |||
| Islamic Solidarity Games | | | | | | 7 | |||
| European Championships | | | 6 | | |||||
| Paris Challenge Cup | | | |||||||
| Mersin Challenge Cup | | | 8 | | |||||
| World Championships | 11 | WD | | R1 | |||||
| Arthur Gander Memorial | 5 | ||||||||
| Swiss Cup | | ||||||||
| 2023 | Cottbus World Cup | 5 | |||||||
| Doha World Cup | 4 | | 8 | 4 | |||||
| DTB Pokal Team Challenge | | | | ||||||
| European Championships | | | | 5 | |||||
| World University Games | 9 | WD | | 5 | |||||
| World Championships | 10 | WD | |||||||
| Arthur Gander Memorial | 7 | ||||||||
| Swiss Cup | 6 | ||||||||
| 2024 | Antalya Challenge Cup | | | ||||||
| European Championships | 9 | | |||||||
| Olympic Games | 9 | 5 | |||||||
| 2025 | Osijek World Cup | | |||||||
| Varna World Challenge Cup | 6 | | | ||||||
| European Championships | | | 5 | ||||||
| World Championships | — | |
Slowly but surely, Asil – who was then still competing as Abdelrahman Elzamzamy, and later as Abdelrahman Elgamal – improved under his new coaches.
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