13 Facts About Youssef Ramadan

Youssef Ramadan competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 100 metre butterfly, placing sixteenth in the semifinals.

Youssef Ramadan started attending Virginia Tech and competing collegiately as part of the Virginia Tech Hokies swim team in the autumn of 2020 as an 18-year-old.

When he was 17 years old, Youssef Ramadan placed 11th in the semifinals of the 50 metre butterfly with a 24.13 and 16th in the semifinals of the 100 metre freestyle in 50.80 seconds at the 2019 World Junior Championships, held at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary in August 2019.

At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 19-year-old Youssef Ramadan set an Egyptian record in the prelims heats of the 100 metre butterfly with a time of 51.67 seconds, which qualified him for the semifinals tied in rank for fourteenth overall in the prelims heats with Szebasztian Szabo of Hungary.

At the 2021 FINA World Short Course Swimming Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Youssef Ramadan won his prelims heats of the 100 metre butterfly with a personal best time of 49.66 seconds and advanced to semifinals ranked third overall, six-hundredths of a second slower than second-ranked Andrei Minakov of Russia and seventeen-hundredths of a second slower than first-ranked Noe Ponti of Switzerland.

At the 2022 Atlantic Coast Conference, ACC, Championships in February 2022, Youssef Ramadan ranked fifth in the prelims heats of the 50-yard freestyle with a 19.13.

Youssef Ramadan placed third in the final with a personal best time of 43.90 seconds, finishing 0.19 seconds behind first-place finisher Andrei Minakov and 0.10 seconds behind second-place finisher Luca Urlando.

Youssef Ramadan followed his performance up with a rank of ninth in the preliminary heats of the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 47.50 seconds.

Youssef Ramadan placed tenth in the semifinals with a time of 46.57 seconds.

At the 2023 Virginia Tech Invitational in early February, Youssef Ramadan achieved a win in the 200 yard butterfly with a personal best time of 1:42.96 and set new pool records for two individual events, a 45.48 for the 100 yard backstroke and a 44.42 for the 100 yard butterfly.

Youssef Ramadan followed up with a time of 18.82 seconds in the final of the 50 yard freestyle to achieve a second-place finish and win the silver medal.

Youssef Ramadan's 43.93 marked the fastest time achieved in the event in the NCAA season.

Youssef Ramadan repeated as the "Men's Most Valuable Swimmer" for the Championships with his performances and helped the men's Virginia Tech Hokies team improve to an overall second-place amongst competing teams.