Egypt at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

Sporting event delegation
Egypt at the
2000 Summer Paralympics
IPC codeEGY
NPCEgyptian Paralympic Committee
in Sydney
Competitors45 (33 male, 12 female)
Medals
Ranked 23rd
Gold
6
Silver
12
Bronze
10
Total
28
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)

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.

Background

The Egyptian team included 45 sportspeople, 12 women and 33 men. This was 7 more women than the country had sent to Atlanta for the 1996 Games.[1] General Union of Sports Clubs for the Disabled had served as Egypt's NPC since 1982. In 1998, two years before the Sydney Games, it was replaced by the Egyptian Disabled Sports Federation as a result of President of the Council of Ministers Order No. (659).[2]

Medals

Egypt finished the Sydney hosted Games with 28 totals medals, 6 gold, 12 silver and 10 bronze, enabling their country to finish 23rd out of 123 on the medal table.[3][4]

Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Mahmoud Elatar Athletics Men's discus F58
 Gold Mahmoud Elatar Athletics Men's javelin F58
 Gold Ibrahim Allam Athletics Men's shot put F58
 Gold Gomma G. Ahmed Powerlifting Men's -56 kg
 Gold Metwaly Mathana Powerlifting Men's -60 kg
 Gold Fatma Omar Powerlifting Women's -44 kg
 Silver Ahmed Hassan Mahmoud Athletics Men's 400m T37
 Silver Tarek Hussein Athletics Men's discus F37
 Silver Ibrahim Ali Athletics Men's discus F57
 Silver Metawa Abou Elkhair Athletics Men's discus F58
 Silver El Sayed Moussa Athletics Men's javelin F58
 Silver Hany Elbehiry Athletics Men's shot put F58
 Silver Osama Elsemegawy Powerlifting Men's -52 kg
 Silver Shaban Ibrahim Powerlifting Men's -67.5 kg
 Silver Abd Elmonem Farag Powerlifting Men's -90 kg
 Silver Sherif Bakr Powerlifting Men's -100 kg
 Silver Abir Ibrahim Aly Nail Powerlifting Women's -48 kg
 Silver Hend Abd Elaty Powerlifting Women's -82.5 kg
 Bronze Ahmed Hassan Mahmoud Athletics Men's 200m T37
 Bronze Hossam Abd Ellatif Athletics Men's discus F57
 Bronze Ibrahim Ali Athletics Men's javelin F57
 Bronze Hany Elbehiry Athletics Men's javelin F58
 Bronze Karim Feleifal Athletics Women's discus F58
 Bronze Zakia Abdin Athletics Women's javelin F58
 Bronze Mervat Omar Athletics Women's shot put F58
 Bronze El Sayed Abd El Aal Powerlifting Men's -75 kg
 Bronze Mostafa Hamed Powerlifting Men's -82.5 kg
 Bronze Nadia Ali Powerlifting Women's 67.5 kg

Athletics

Egypt won three gold medals, six silver and seven bronze in athletics.[5] Egyptian athletes competed at the 1999 Disabled Sports USA DS/USA's National Summer Games as part of their preparation efforts for the 2000 Games.[6] Mahmoud Elatar set a world record of 49.92m in men's javelin F58 while Ibrahim Allam set a personal record of 14.77m in shot put, both athletes gained gold medals.

Powerlifting

Egypt won three gold medals, five silver and four bronze, dropping from first place in Atlanta to third in Sydney, behind China and Nigeria.[2]

Metwalli Mathana made his second Paralympic appearance at these Games.[3] Fatma Omar made her Paralympic debut in Sydney, winning her first gold medal in powerlifting at the Games in the -44 kg class.[3][7] Ahmed Gomaa Mohamed Ahmed participated in his third Games in Sydney. Mohamed Ahmed took up the sport in 1984, and decided to compete internationally because he was able to lift more than his able-bodied counterparts in Egypt. In the period around these Games, he was training five days a week, three hours a day. He was getting funding from the Egyptian Paralympic Committee to allow him to train full-time. In Sydney, he repeated his performance from Atlanta, winning gold and setting a world record in the men's -56 kg class.[8] Osama Elserngawy won silver in the Men's 52 kg event.[7]

See also

External links

  • International Paralympic Committee

References

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  2. ^ a b "DISABLED SPORTS POWERLIFTING CHALLENGES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE VISION IN EGYPT". Retrieved 2016-10-25.
  3. ^ a b c "On to the Paralympics". Al-Ahram Weekly. No. 1311. September 8, 2016. Archived from the original on October 26, 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  4. ^ "A promise is a promise" Archived 2008-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Al-Ahram weekly, November 2, 2000
  5. ^ "Guts and Glory" Archived 2008-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Egypt Today, August 2008
  6. ^ Evans, Elizabeth. "Springfield College plays host to two summer national championships." Palaestra Fall 1997: 36+. Academic OneFile. Web. 26 Oct. 2016.
  7. ^ a b "Official Website of the Chinese Olympic Committee". en.olympic.cn. Archived from the original on 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  8. ^ "Meet Ahmed, Multi Gold Medal Winner and Paralympic Record Holder - Популярные статьи - Библиотека международной спортивной информации". bmsi.ru. Archived from the original on 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
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