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Modern Muslim female athletes have achieved success in a variety of sports, including volleyball, tennis, association football, fencing, and basketball. [2] In the 2016 Summer Olympics , fourteen women from Muslim-majority countries won medals, participating in a wide range of sports.
Ibtihaj Muhammad (born December 4, 1985) is an American sabre fencer, author, entrepreneur and Olympic medalist.At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first American woman to compete in the Olympics in hijab, the first American Muslim woman to win an Olympic medal, [1] and the first Black woman to win an Olympic medal in the sabre event, when she won bronze in the women’s saber team event.
Abdullah is an activist for Muslim women in sports. Since her debut in professional weightlifting, Abdullah has been part of multiple opportuntiies. in 2015, she along with four other Muslim women from around the world formed a team known as Shirzanan for the RAGBRAI; a bicycle ride event organized by The Des Moines Register.
Approaching midnight, the hard work is just beginning for Sabir Hussein. Trains running on the elevated railway above Diesel Gym in East London’s docklands are mostly empty. The timing is far ...
Dalilah Muhammad (born February 7, 1990) [1] is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 400 meters hurdles. She is the 2016 Rio Olympics champion [ 2 ] and 2020 Tokyo Olympics silver medalist, becoming at the latter the then- second-fastest woman of all time in the event with her personal best of 51.58 seconds. [ 3 ]
Salwa Eid Naser (née Ebelechukwu Agbapuonwu, born 23 May 1998) [1] is a Nigerian-born Bahraini sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres.She was the 2019 World champion with the third fastest time in history of 48.14 seconds, becoming the youngest-ever champion in the event and also the first woman representing an Asian nation to win that event at a World Championships.
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She participated in the 2022 Commonwealth Games and won Bronze Medal in the Women's Featherweight Division. She is one of the first Australian Muslim women boxers, [3] [4] [5] and the first to compete in the Olympics, at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. [6] She lives in Bankstown.