CIB Black Ball Open | 03/20 17:15 | 8 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Zahed Salem | Retired | |
CIB Black Ball Open | 12/15 15:30 | 8 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Fares Dessouky | 2-3 | |
CIB Black Ball Open | 12/14 17:15 | 7 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Mohamed ElSherbini | 3-0 | |
Egypt Open | 10/11 16:30 | 8 | Mazen Hesham v Karim Abdel Gawad | 3-1 | |
World Tour Finals | 10/03 18:41 | - | Karim Abdel Gawad v Marwan ElShorbagy | 3-8 | |
World Tour Finals | 10/03 17:15 | 1 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Marwan El Shorbagy | 0-3 | |
World Tour Finals | 10/02 17:20 | 2 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Joel Makin | 2-0 | |
World Tour Finals | 10/01 16:45 | 9 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Simon Rosner | 2-0 | |
World Tour Finals | 09/29 18:15 | 8 | Ali Farag v Karim Abdel Gawad | 1-2 | |
World Tour Finals | 09/28 18:15 | 7 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Diego Elias | 1-2 | |
Manchester Open | 09/22 16:00 | 1 | Mohamed ElShorbagy v Karim Abdel Gawad | 3-1 | |
Manchester Open | 09/21 16:00 | 2 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Marwan ElShorbagy | 3-1 | |
Manchester Open | 09/20 18:15 | 3 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Simon Rosner | 3-1 | |
Manchester Open | 09/19 15:45 | 8 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Declan James | 3-0 | |
Manchester Open | 09/17 13:15 | 7 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Lucas Serme | 3-2 | |
Canary Wharf Classic | 03/10 18:45 | 8 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Greg Lobban | 0-2 | |
Windy City Open | 03/04 02:10 | 2 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Paul Coll | 1-3 | |
Windy City Open | 03/02 23:45 | 3 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Simon Rosner | 3-2 | |
Windy City Open | 03/01 18:45 | 9 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Mathieu Castagnet | 3-0 | |
Windy City Open | 02/28 18:45 | 8 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Miguel Rodriguez | 3-0 | |
Tournament of Champions | 01/17 01:00 | 2 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Mohamed ElShorbagy | 0-3 | |
Tournament of Champions | 01/15 22:45 | 3 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Simon Rosner | 3-2 | |
Tournament of Champions | 01/13 22:30 | 9 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Declan James | 3-1 | |
Tournament of Champions | 01/11 17:45 | 8 | Karim Abdel Gawad v Iker Pajares Bernabeu | 3-1 | |
World Team Championships | 12/21 20:45 | - | Karim Abdel Gawad v Declan James | 12-10 | |
World Team Championships | 12/20 21:07 | - | Karim Abdel Gawad v Peter Creed | 11-7 | |
World Team Championships | 12/19 16:44 | - | Karim Abdel Gawad v Raphael Kandra | 10-4 | |
World Team Championships | 12/15 18:31 | - | Karim Abdel Gawad v Andrew Douglas | 10-6 | |
Channel VAS Championship | 11/24 15:30 | 1 | Mohamed ElShorbagy v Karim Abdel Gawad | 2-3 | |
Channel VAS Championship | 11/23 16:00 | 2 | Paul Coll v Karim Abdel Gawad | 0-3 |
Karim Gawad (born 30 July 1991) is an Egyptian professional squash player. He is a former world individual champion and world number 1 and a three-times world team champion.
In November 2016, he won the 2016 World Open Squash Championship in Cairo in Egypt against Ramy Ashour. He became the third Egyptian to win the World Championship after Amr Shabana and Ashour. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 1 in May 2017. Later in 2017, he was part of the Egyptian team that won the 2017 Men's World Team Squash Championships in France and repeated the success with Egypt at the 2019 Men's World Team Squash Championships in the United States.
In 2020, he suffered a major injury during the final of the 2020 Manchester Open. He damaged his heel, which eventually led to ten months out of squash and his world ranking plummeted as a result.
In May 2023, he reached the final of the 2023 PSA Men's World Squash Championship, after defeating second seed Diego Elías in the quarter final and third seed Mohamed El Shorbagy in the semi final. In the final he lost to compatriot Ali Farag but Gawad became the first unseeded player since Rodney Martin in 1991 to reach the world championship final. It completed a remarkable comeback from the injury he suffered the previous year.
Gawad was recalled to the Egyptian team for the 2024 Men's World Team Squash Championships in Hong Kong and secured a third career gold medal in the Championships.