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Egypt at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Egypt was represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China by the Egyptian Olympic Committee.

In total, 100 athletes including 74 men and 26 women represented Egypt in 19 different sports including archery, athletics, badminton, boxing, equestrian, fencing, gymnastics, handball, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, shooting, swimming, synchronised swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling.

Egypt won two medals at the Games after Abeer Abdelrahman and Hesham Mesbah won bronze in the women's weightlifting and men's judo, respectively.

Competitors

In total, 100 athletes represented Egypt at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China across 19 different sports.

Medalists

Egypt won a total of two medals at the games after Hesham Mesbah won bronze in the judo men's –90 kg category and Abeer Abdelrahman won bronze in the weightlifting women's –69 kg category.

Archery

In total, one Egyptian athlete participated in the archery events – Maged Youssef in the men's individual.

Athletics

In total, four Egyptian athletes participated in the athletics events – Mohsen El Anany in the men's hammer throw, Omar El Ghazali in the men's discus throw, Yasser Farag in the men's shot put and Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud in the men's 200 m.

Track & road events
Field events

Badminton

In total, one Egyptian athlete participated in the badminton events – Hadia Hosny in the women's singles.

Boxing

In total, three Egyptian athletes participated in the boxing events – Hosam Bakr Abdin in the welterweight category, Mohamed Hikal in the middleweight category and Ramadan Yasser in the light heavyweight category.

Equestrian

In total, one Egyptian athlete participated in the equestrian events – Karim El-Zoghby in the individual jumping.

Fencing

In total, 10 Egyptian athletes participated in the fencing events – Eman El Gammal, Shaimaa El Gammal, Aya El Sayed, Tamim Ghazy, Gamal Fathy, Ahmed Nabil, Mostafa Nagaty, Mahmoud Samir, Iman Shaban, Salma Soueif and Shadi Talaat.

Men
Women

Gymnastics

In total, two Egyptian athletes participated in the gymnastics events – Sherine El-Zeiny in the women's artistic individual all-around and Mohamed Serour in the men's artistic individual all-around.

Men
Women

Handball

In total, 14 Egyptian athletes participated in the handball events – Abouelfetoh Abdelrazek, Ahmed El Ahmar, Hany El-Fakharany, Mohamed Bakir El-Nakib, Mohamed Abd El-Salam, Mahmoud Hassaballah, Mustafa Hussien, Belal Mabrouk, Hassan Mabrouk, Hussein Mabrouk, Walid Abdel Maksoud, Mohamed Ramadan, Hassan Yousry and Hussein Zaky in the men's tournament.

Group play

Judo

In total, four Egyptian athletes participated in the judo events – Amin El Hady in the men's −66 kg category, Islam El Shehaby in the men's +100 kg category, Hesham Mesbah in the men's −90 kg category and Samah Ramadan in the women's +78 kg category.

Men
Women

Modern pentathlon

In total, three Egyptian athletes participated in the modern pentathlon events – Amro El Geziry in the men's competition and Omnia Fakhry and Aya Medany in the women's competition.

Rowing

In total, six Egyptian athletes participated in the rowing events – Heba Ahmed in the women's single sculls, Ali Ibrahim in the men's single sculls and Ibrahim Abd El Razek, Ahmed Gad, Amin Ramadan and Mohamed Zidan in the men's lightweight coxless four.

Men
Women

Shooting

In total, nine Egyptian athletes participated in the shooting events – Samy Abdel Razek in the men's 50 m pistol, Mohamed Abdellah in the men's 10 m air rifle, Mahmod Abdelaly in the men's 10 m air pistol, Mohamed Amer in the men's 50 m rifle three positions, Franco Donato in the men's skeet, Mona El-Hawary in the women's skeet, Shaimaa Abdel-Latif-Hashad in the women's 10 m air rifle, Adham Medhat in the men's trap and Hazem Mohamed in the men's 50 m rifle prone.

Men
Women

Swimming

In total, three Egyptian athletes participated in the swimming events – Mohamed El Nady in the men's 50 m freestyle, Mohamed Monir in the men's 10 km open water and Ahmed Nada in the men's 100 m butterfly.

Synchronised swimming

In total, eight Egyptian athletes participated in the synchronised swimming events – Reem Abdalazem, Aziza Abdelfattah, Shaza Abdelrahman, Lamyaa Badawi, Hagar Badran, Dalia El Gebaly, Youmna Khallaf, Mai Mohamed and Nouran Saleh.

Table tennis

In total, five Egyptian athletes participated in the table tennis events – Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz and Noha Yossry in the women's singles and El-Sayed Lashin, Adel Massaad and Ahmed Saleh in the men's singles.

Taekwondo

In total, one Egyptian athlete participated in the taekwondo events – Noha Abd Rabo in the women's +67 kg category.

Volleyball

In total, 12 Egyptian athletes participated in the volleyball events – Ashraf Abouelhassan, Abdalla Ahmed, Abdel Latif Ahmed, Wael Al-Aydy, Hamdy Awad, Mohamed Badawy, Mahmoud Abd El Kader, Mohamed Seif El-Nasr, Mohamed Gabal, Hossameldin Gomaa, Ahmed Abdel Naeim and Saleh Youssef in the indoor men's tournament.

Group play

Weightlifting

In total, five Egyptian athletes participated in the weightlifting events – Mohamed Abd Elbaki in the men's −62 kg category, Mahmoud Elhaddad in the men's −77 kg category, Abdelrahman El-Sayed in the men's −105 kg category, Abir Khalil in the women's −69 kg category and Tarek Yehia in the men's −69 kg category.

Wrestling

In total, seven Egyptian athletes participated in the wrestling events – Ashraf El-Gharably in the men's Greco-Roman −60 kg category, Saleh Emara in the men's freestyle −96 kg category, Haiat Farag in the women's freestyle −63 kg category, Karam Gaber in the men's Greco-Roman −96 kg category, Hassan Madany in the men's freestyle −60 kg category, Mostafa Mohamed in the men's Greco-Roman −55 kg category and Yasser Sakr in the men's Greco-Roman −120 kg category.

Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
Women's freestyle

See also

References

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