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Egypt women's national basketball team won the FIBA Africa Championship for Women in 1966 and 1968 and came second in 1970 as the United Arab Republic. In the 1974 championship Egypt won third place and they were the runner up in 1977 championship. More recently they came seventh in 2000 [2] 1966 – 1st; 1968 – 1st; 1970 – 2nd; 1974 ...
Speed-Ball (Arabic: كرة السرعة / [kurat.assurʕa]) is a racquet sport invented in Egypt in 1961 by Mohamed Lotfy, [1] father of Hussein Lotfy (first world champion) and Ahmad Lotfy (the present president of FISB), for the training of beginner tennis players.
2018: Canada's Snowboarding Team. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, the Canadian snowboarding team showed off their tricks in style. Designed by B.C. artist Corrine Hunt, she drew inspiration from her ...
The participation of women in the Olympic Games has involved multiple instances of relatives competing in different or even the same editions of the Games. Sisters [25] [26] Sherwet and Nevine Hafez were the first Egyptian women to compete together at the 1984 Olympics, participating in swimming events at the ages of 17 and 15, [8] respectively.
Jana El-Alfy (born 20 September 2005) [3] is an Egyptian basketball player who plays for UConn Huskies women's basketball and Egypt Women's National Team.In 2022, She became the first African woman and second-ever woman to be invited to attend the NBA Global Academy in Australia.
The outfits for the 1992 Olympics looked remarkably similar to the opening ceremony uniforms worn in 1988, seemingly kicking off a tradition of blazers, slacks, and skirts that persisted until the ...
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 2024 United States women's Olympic basketball team competed in the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad held in Paris, France. Led by coach Cheryl Reeve , the team won its ninth gold medal, and eighth consecutive, at the event.