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Taekwondo medalists from Spain, Britain, Iran and Egypt at Rio Olympics, 2016 [ 1] 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 ...
Les Hijabeuses is a French collective which advocates for the rights of Muslim women to wear hijab while playing association football. The group was founded in May 2020 rising to prominence because of their opposition to legislation which would have codified a ban on wearing hijab while playing organized sports. History
5 ft 4 in (163 cm) Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir (born 11 November 1990) is an American former collegiate basketball player. She was notable for playing basketball while wearing a hijab, a headscarf for Muslim women . Abdul-Qaadir scored 3,070 points in her high school career, setting the all-time scoring record in Massachusetts.
The collective was created in October 2023 in a bid to fight back against discrimination in basketball and provide a sense of community to young Hijab-observing girls who love the sport.
As a Muslim woman who had played whilst wearing the hijab for three years up until that point, it wasn't even an option for her. She recalls telling the match official: "You see me like this, and ...
"I have worn the hijab for 10 years," she said after a 21-12, 21-15 loss to Germany. "It doesn't keep me away from the things I love to do, and beach volleyball is one of them."
Basketball. In Jeddah in 2003 the first women’s basketball team in Saudi Arabia was formed by Lina Al-Maeena, [ 19] co-founder of the Jeddah United Sporting Company, the first sports organization that sought to include the development of female athletes in 2006. [ 20] Jeddah United provides an environment where males, females, children, and ...
Days before the Paris Olympics began, French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla was stuck in a row with her government over the right to wear a hijab at the opening ceremony. But after a last-gasp ...