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Egyptian women eventually made their Olympic debut 88 years after the Games' inception, during the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. [4] This made Egypt the fourth Arab country to have female participants in the Olympics, after Algeria, Libya, and Syria. [5] Since then, Egyptian women have consistently participated in every Summer Olympics ...
Egypt competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Since the nation's debut in 1912, Egyptian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games except for two occasions: the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles because of the worldwide Great Depression and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, as part of the United States-led boycott.
The first Summer Olympic Games was held in 1896 in Athens, but women competed for the first time in next games in 1900 in Paris. [1] An Egyptian woman was scheduled to compete for the first time in the 1972 Summer Olympics, but the Munich massacre during that Games led to the departure of Egypt's delegation before the she could compete.
Members of the Egyptian women’s beach volleyball team have spoken out against France’s hijab ban for its athletes after competing in an Olympic beach volleyball match wearing modest clothing ...
Hafez represented Egypt in women’s saber at both the Rio and Tokyo Olympics, but she lost in the opening round both times. She celebrated her victory over Tartakovsky with a double fist pump and ...
Youmna, from coastal city of Damietta, began her career in combat sports such as karate and kung fu and won a bronze medal at the 2022 Mediterranean Games -- Egypt's first in women's boxing ...
Egypt also participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in protest of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Egypt's participation at the Winter Olympic Games was a single alpine skier in 1984. Egyptian athletes have won a total of 41 medals, with weightlifting as its top sport.
The team was also Egypt's first ever Olympic team to compete in a beach volleyball tournament. [2] Though Elghobashy and Meawad did not advance in the tournament, Elghobashy has become an inspiration for Muslim women, especially those in sports and who wear a headscarf, as she joined the ranks of the few Muslim women who compete in a headscarf.