Egypt at the 1996 Summer Paralympics | |
---|---|
IPC code | EGY |
NPC | Egyptian Paralympic Committee |
in Atlanta | |
Competitors | 31 (26 men and 5 women) |
Medals Ranked 21st |
|
Summer Paralympics appearances | |
Egypt competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States. They sent 31 athletes (26 males and 5 females), who won 30 total medals, 8 gold, 11 silver and 11 bronze. They participated in several sports including powerlifting. [1] The team included powerlifters Ahmed Gomaa Mohamed Ahmed and Metwalli Mathana. [2] [3]
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west. Across the Gulf of Aqaba lies Jordan, across the Red Sea lies Saudi Arabia, and across the Mediterranean lie Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, although none share a land border with Egypt.
The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, USA were held from August 16 to 25. It was the first Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship, and had a budget of USD $81 million.
Atlanta is the capital of, and the most populous city in, the U.S. state of Georgia. With an estimated 2017 population of 486,290, it is also the 38th most-populous city in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5.8 million people and the ninth-largest metropolitan area in the nation. Atlanta is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia. A small portion of the city extends eastward into neighboring DeKalb County.
Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
---|---|---|---|
Ahmed Hassan Mahmoud | Athletics | Men's 400m T36 | |
Ahmed Dahy | Athletics | Men's discus F41 | |
Mohamed Gawad | Athletics | Men's discus F57 | |
Ahmed Abd Elgawad | Athletics | Men's shot put F41 | |
Karima Feleifal | Athletics | Women's discus F55-57 | |
Zakia Abdin | Athletics | Women's javelin F55-57 | |
Mervat Omar | Athletics | Women's shot put F55-57 | |
Gomma G. Ahmed | Powerlifting | Men's 56kg | |
Hany Elbehiry | Athletics | Men's discus F57 | |
Ahmed Dahy | Athletics | Men's javelin F41 | |
Ashraf Elsafi | Athletics | Men's shot put F41 | |
Hany Elbehiry | Athletics | Men's shot put F57 | |
Mervat Omar | Athletics | Women's discus F55-57 | |
Zakia Abdin | Athletics | Women's shot put F55-57 | |
Metwaly Mathna | Powerlifting | Men's 60kg | |
Emadeldin Mohamed | Powerlifting | Men's 67.5kg | |
Mostafa Hamed | Powerlifting | Men's 82.5kg | |
Essam Attia | Swimming | Men's 50m backstroke S5 | |
Ahmed Hassan Mahmoud | Athletics | Men's 100m T36 | |
Ahmed Hassan Mahmoud | Athletics | Men's 200m T36 | |
Ahmed Abd Elgawad | Athletics | Men's discus F41 | |
Ayman Abou Elata | Athletics | Men's discus F46 | |
H. Abdel Latif | Athletics | Men's discus F56 | |
Ahmed Abd Elgawad | Athletics | Men's javelin F41 | |
Mohamed Hassan | Athletics | Men's javelin F57 | |
Shaaban El Khatib | Athletics | Men's shot put F57 | |
Sohir Elkoumy | Athletics | Women's shot put F55-57 | |
Abd Elmonem Farag | Powerlifting | Men's 75kg | |
Walid Abd Elkader | Swimming | Men's 50m butterfly S7 |
Egypt has been participating in the Paralympic Games since 1972, and has participated in every edition of the Summer Games since then.
Egypt, which is represented by the Egyptian Olympic Committee (EOC), competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States from July 19 to August 4, 1996. Twenty-nine Egyptian athletes, twenty-seven men and two women, competed in boxing, handball, judo, rowing, shooting, swimming, weightlifting, and wrestling, but the nation did not win any medals.
The 1996 Summer Paralympics medal table is a list of National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 1996 Summer Paralympics, held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, from August 16 to August 25, 1996.
Egypt sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. The 38 member strong team won 12 medals, 4 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze. Sports Egypt participated in included athletics, powerlifting and table tennis Among Egypt's representatives included Fatma Omar and Sherif Othman in powerlifting, Mohammed Beshta, Mahmoud El-Attar, Hossam Abdel Kader and Mohammed El-Sayed Abdel Kader in athletics and Fayza Hafez in table tennis.
Egypt sent a delegation to compete at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia. Egyptian athletes won six gold medals, twelve silver and ten bronze, enabling their country to finish 23rd out of 123 on the medal table. Athletics and powerlifting were equally successful, with each sport giving 3 gold medals each to Egypt.
The United States was the host nation for the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Its athletes finished first in the gold and overall medal count.
Ahmed Hassan Mahmoud is a paralympic athlete from Egypt competing mainly in category T37 sprint events.
Egypt competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom from August 29 to September 9, 2012. Egypt made their debut at the Paralympic Games in 1972. Since their debut Egypt have won 165 medals. Egypt's most successful appearance at the Paralympic Games was in Atlanta in 1980, winning 30 medals.
Kenya competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. The country sent a 17 strong athlete delegation to Atlanta, United States.
Canada competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States, from August 16 to 25, 1996. 133 athletes competed in 15 sports. Canada won a total of 70 medals and finished in seventh on the medal table.
Ten athletes from Cuba competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States. Competitors from Cuba won 11 medals, including 8 golds and 3 silvers to finish 23rd in the medal table. All their medals were won in athletics.
38 athletes from Mexico competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States. Mexico won three gold medals, five silver and three bronze.
Tunisia competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom from August 29 to September 9, 2012. This was the nation's seventh appearance at the Summer Paralympics since 1988. The Tunisian Paralympic Committee sent a total of 31 athletes to the Games, 18 men and 13 women to compete in Athletics only.
Hadi Rezaeigarkani is an athlete, coach and Olympian with world and Paralympic medals, both as an athlete and a coach of Iran's men's sitting volleyball team. He was born in Mashhad, Iran.
Jeanette Clare Chippington, is a British Paralympic swimmer and paracanoeist. Chippington has represented Great Britain at five consecutive Summer Paralympics, 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. Competing as a S6 classification swimmer she favoured mainly 50 m and 100m freestyle competitions. After retiring from swimming Chippington returned to disability sport, becoming a world class paracanoeist, winning medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships between 2012 and 2017.
Egypt competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016. The country sent a delegation of 44 sportspeople. The team included 16-year-old Ayattalah Ayman, the youngest member of the delegation and the first woman to represent Egypt in swimming. It also included 41-year-old Ibrahim Al-Husseini Hamadtu, the only table tennis player to compete while holding the paddle in his mouth.
Egypt competed at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain. The 41 member team competed in athletics, powerlifting and shooting. They won 20 medals including 7 gold, 6 silver and 7 bronze, finishing 19th on the medal table. Members of the team included athletics competitors Ahmed Mohamed, Said Afifi, Aymen Ibrahim, Hany Mohamed, Mohamed Abdulla Mohamed and Mohamed Said, and shooter Sherif Abd Alla.
Egypt competed at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, South Korea.
Egypt competed at the 1980 Summer Paralympics in Arnhem, Netherlands.
Sara Samir Elsayed Mohamed Ahmed is an Egyptian weightlifter who won a bronze medal in the women's 69 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Originally from the Ismailia Governorate, Ahmed was encouraged to take part in weightlifting by her family and was competing internationally by 2012. At the senior level, she has earned gold medals at the Mediterranean and African Games, as well as the Arab Championships. In Rio, she became the first Arab woman to receive an Olympic weightlifting medal and the first Egyptian woman to receive an Olympic medal in any discipline.
Tunisia competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.
This 1996 Summer Paralympics-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
This article about sports in Egypt is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |