Egypt at the Olympics | |
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IOC code | EGY |
NOC | Egyptian Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
Medals Ranked 61st |
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1906 Intercalated Games –––– United Arab Republic (1960, 1964) |
Egypt first participated at the Olympic Games in 1912, and has sent athletes to compete in most editions of the Summer Olympic since then. Along with Cambodia, Iraq and Lebanon, Egypt boycotted the 1956 Summer Olympics in protest of the tripartite Israeli, British, and French invasion of Egypt in the Suez War. However, the equestrian events for the 1956 Games were held in Stockholm, Sweden five months earlier (because of Australian quarantine regulations), and three Egyptian riders competed there. Egypt withdrew from the 1976 Summer Olympics after three days of competition to join the broad African boycott in response to the participation of New Zealand, who still had sporting links with apartheid South Africa. Egypt also participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Egypt's lone participation at the Winter Olympic Games was a single alpine skier in 1984.
Egyptian athletes have won a total of 38 medals, with weightlifting as the top medal-producing sport.
The National Olympic Committee for Egypt is the Egyptian Olympic Committee, and was created in 1910.
Medal | Name | Games | Sport | Event |
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Gold | El Sayed Nosseir | 1928 Amsterdam | Weightlifting | Men's light heavyweight |
Gold | Ibrahim Moustafa | 1928 Amsterdam | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight |
Silver | Farid Simaika | 1928 Amsterdam | Diving | Men's 10 m platform |
Bronze | Farid Simaika | 1928 Amsterdam | Diving | Men's 3 m springboard |
Gold | Anwar Mesbah | 1936 Berlin | Weightlifting | Men's lightweight |
Gold | Khadr El Touni | 1936 Berlin | Weightlifting | Men's middleweight |
Silver | Saleh Soliman | 1936 Berlin | Weightlifting | Men's featherweight |
Bronze | Ibrahim Shams | 1936 Berlin | Weightlifting | Men's featherweight |
Bronze | Ibrahim Wasif | 1936 Berlin | Weightlifting | Men's light heavyweight |
Gold | Mahmoud Fayad | 1948 London | Weightlifting | Men's featherweight |
Gold | Ibrahim Shams | 1948 London | Weightlifting | Men's lightweight |
Silver | Attia Hamouda | 1948 London | Weightlifting | Men's lightweight |
Silver | Mahmoud Hassan | 1948 London | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman bantamweight |
Bronze | Ibrahim Orabi | 1948 London | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight |
Bronze | Abdel Aaal Rashed | 1952 Helsinki | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman featherweight |
Silver | Osman Sayed | 1960 Rome | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman flyweight |
Bronze | Abdel Moneim El-Guindi | 1960 Rome | Boxing | Men's flyweight |
Silver | Mohamed Ali Rashwan | 1984 Los Angeles | Judo | Men's open |
Gold | Karam Gaber | 2004 Athens | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg |
Silver | Mohamed Aly | 2004 Athens | Boxing | Men's super heavyweight |
Bronze | Ahmed Ismail | 2004 Athens | Boxing | Men's light heavyweight |
Bronze | Mohamed Elsayed | 2004 Athens | Boxing | Men's heavyweight |
Bronze | Tamer Bayoumi | 2004 Athens | Taekwondo | Men's 58 kg |
Bronze | Hesham Mesbah | 2008 Beijing | Judo | Men's −90 kg |
Bronze | Abeer Abdelrahman | 2008 Beijing | Weightlifting | Women's 69 kg |
Silver | Alaaeldin Abouelkassem | 2012 London | Fencing | Men's foil |
Silver | Abeer Abdelrahman | 2012 London | Weightlifting | Women's 75 kg |
Silver | Karam Gaber | 2012 London | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg |
Bronze | Tarek Yehia | 2012 London | Weightlifting | Men's 85 kg |
Bronze | Mohamed Ihab | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Weightlifting | Men's 77 kg |
Bronze | Sara Ahmed | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Weightlifting | Women's 69 kg |
Bronze | Hedaya Malak | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Taekwondo | Women's 57 kg |
Gold | Feryal Abdelaziz | 2020 Tokyo | Karate | Women's +61 kg |
Silver | Ahmed Elgendy | 2020 Tokyo | Modern pentathlon | Men's |
Bronze | Hedaya Malak | 2020 Tokyo | Taekwondo | Women's 67 kg |
Bronze | Seif Eissa | 2020 Tokyo | Taekwondo | Men's 80 kg |
Bronze | Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed | 2020 Tokyo | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 67 kg |
Bronze | Giana Farouk | 2020 Tokyo | Karate | Women's −61 kg |
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