Double Diving: Starring Olympic Divers Dutch Smith and Farid Sumaika,

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One of the Egyptian champions in the Olympics is Farid Sumaika, the Egyptian diving champion, who was born on June 12, 1907 in Alexandria. He is considered the first Egyptian and Arab player to win the silver and bronze medals in diving in the Olympic Games. Sumaika won two medals in one tournament, the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, where he won the fixed ladder silver and the moving ladder bronze, as well as in the 1932 World Diving Championship. Farid Sumaika retired in 1935 at the height of his brilliance and worked as a coach for the Egyptian Olympic diving team, which participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Sumaika broke into the world of Hollywood cinema by appearing as a stunt double in dangerous scenes in Tarzan films with Johnny Weissmuller and in the movie Overseas, and he participated in his jumps in some of the famous documentaries produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about scuba diving, which are double diving in 1939 and water sports in 1941. The end of the Olympic champion of Egypt was tragic, as he was killed on September 11, 1943 in Makassar, Indonesia, by the Japanese in World War II, where he participated with the American army in the war after joining the army as a result of his previous knowledge of aviation, when his plane was shot down in Indonesia and captured, then he was cut off. his head and hung it on the walls of the camp in which he was arrested with some soldiers to create panic in the hearts of the Americans. The US government, informed Farid Sumaika's family of his death and considered him a martyr in 1945 and honored him with a military medal. Then his son, in turn, became a fighter pilot in the US army, while Egypt named a street in Heliopolis, Cairo, after him.