Egypt at the 2016 Summer Olympics

The following Egyptian athletes won medals at the Games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Bronze Mohamed Ihab Weightlifting Men's 77 kg 10 August  Bronze Sara Samir Weightlifting Women's 69 kg 10 August  Bronze Hedaya Malak Taekwondo Women's 57 kg 18 August

Medals by sport Sport Total Weightlifting 0 0 2 2 Taekwondo 0 0 1 1 Total 0 0 3 3

The Egyptian Olympic Committee (EOC) confirmed a roster of 120 athletes, 83 men and 37 women, to compete across 22 sports at the Games. It was the nation's largest ever delegation sent to the Olympics, breaking its previous record of 110 athletes set in 2012. These Games also witnessed more Egyptian women participating than those who attended in London four years earlier, constituting about 30 percent of the overall squad.[3][6]

Handball and volleyball (both played exclusively by men) were the only collective sports in which Egypt qualified for the Games, having both returned to the Olympic scene after their absence from London 2012. Egypt's women's synchronized swimming and women's table tennis teams, however, participated for their third-straight and second-straight Games, respectively. For individual-based sports, Egypt marked its Olympic debut in women's beach volleyball, as well as its return to cycling after 16 years and diving after 32 years. Shooting accounted for the largest number of athletes on the Egyptian team, with 12 entries. There was a single competitor each in track cycling, equestrian jumping, artistic gymnastics, and sailing.

Of the 120 participants, twenty-eight of them returned to compete again, with the rest of the field attending their maiden Games in Rio de Janeiro. Among the returnees were foil fencer Alaaeldin Abouelkassem, who became the first from an African nation to win an Olympic medal in his sport; and heavyweight judoka Islam El Shehaby, who headed the roster as the lone Egyptian competitor going to his fourth straight Games.[3] Eight Egyptian athletes competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing before their senior Olympic debut, including weightlifter Sara Samir, modern pentathlete Haydy Morsy, distance swimmer Ahmed Akram, and shooters Afaf El-Hodhod (pistol) and Hadir Mekhimar (rifle).

Other notable athletes on the Egyptian roster featured modern pentathlon veteran Amro El-Geziry and his younger brother Omar, world-ranked taekwondo fighter Hedaya Malak, American-born swimming sprinter Farida Osman, and 2014 world bronze medalist Azmy Mehelba in men's skeet shooting. 16-year-old Morsy was Egypt's youngest competitor, with volleyball team captain Ashraf Abouelhassan rounding out the field as the oldest member (aged 41). Handball star and three-time Olympian Ahmed El-Ahmar was selected by EOC to lead the Egyptian squad as the flag bearer in the opening ceremony.[7]

Two Egyptian archers qualified each for both the men's and women's individual recurve by obtaining one of the three Olympic places available from the 2016 African Archery Championships in Windhoek, Namibia.[8]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ahmed El-Nemr	Men's individual	644	51	Worth (AUS) L 0–6	Did not advance
Reem Mansour	Women's individual	596	56	Lin S-c (TPE) L 0–6	Did not advance

Egyptian athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):[9][10]

Track & road events

Field events

Egypt has entered four boxers to compete in the following weight classes into the Olympic boxing tournament. Hosam Abdin was the only Egyptian boxer qualifying through the 2015 World Championships, while three further boxers (Abdelaal, Mohamed, and Salah) had claimed their Olympic spots at the 2016 African Qualification Tournament in Yaoundé, Cameroon.[11]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mahmoud Abdelaal	Men's lightweight	Benbaziz (ALG) L 0–3	Did not advance
Walid Sedik Mohamed	Men's welterweight	Kelly (GBR) L 0–3	Did not advance
Hosam Abdin	Men's middleweight	Clair (MRI) W 3–0	Ntsengue (CMR) W 3–0	Rodríguez (MEX) L 0–3	Did not advance
Abdelrahman Salah	Men's light heavyweight	Sep (CRO) L 1–2	Did not advance

Egyptian divers qualified for the following individual spots at the 2016 Olympic Games by virtue of their top national finish from Africa at the 2015 FINA World Championships.[13]

Egypt has entered one jumping rider into the Olympic equestrian competition by virtue of a top four finish outside the group selection in the individual FEI Olympic Rankings.[14]

Egyptian fencers have qualified a full squad each in the men's team foil by virtue of being the highest ranking team from Africa outside the world's top four in the FIE Olympic Team Rankings.[15][16] Meanwhile, Mohamed Amer (men's sabre) and Noura Mohamed (women's foil) had claimed their Olympic spots on the Egyptian team as one of the two highest-ranked fencers from Africa outside the world's top 14 in the FIE Adjusted Official Rankings.[17] Nada Hafez (women's sabre) and London 2012 épée fencer Ayman Fayez rounded out the roster by virtue of their top finish respectively at the African Zonal Qualifier in Algiers, Algeria.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ayman Fayez	Épée	Bye	R Limardo (VEN) W 15–5	Grumier (FRA) L 9–15	Did not advance
Alaaeldin Abouelkassem	Foil	Bye	Choupenitch (CZE) W 15–8	Garozzo (ITA) L 13–15	Did not advance
Tarek Ayad		Bye	Garozzo (ITA) L 8–15	Did not advance
Mohamed Essam		Marques (BRA) W 15–8	Massialas (USA) L 7–15	Did not advance
Alaaeldin Abouelkassem Tarek Ayad Mohamed Essam	Team foil	—			United States (USA) L 37–45	Classification semifinal  Great Britain (GBR) L 43–45	7th place final  Brazil (BRA) W 45–39	7
Mohamed Amer	Sabre	—	Gu B-g (KOR) L 9–15	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Noura Mohamed	Foil	Bye	Boubakri (TUN) L 4–15	Did not advance
Nada Hafez	Sabre	Benítez (VEN) L 11–15	Did not advance

Summary

Team	Event	Group Stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Egypt men's	Men's tournament	Slovenia L 26–27	Sweden W 26–25	Poland L 25–33	Brazil D 27–27	Germany L 25–31	5	Did not advance			9

Men's tournament

Main article: Handball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Egypt men's handball team qualified for the Olympics by attaining a top finish and securing a lone outright berth at the 2016 African Championships in Cairo.[19][20]

Team roster

The following is the Egyptian roster in the men's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.[21]

Head coach: Marwan Ragab

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 3 RB Mamdouh Abouebaid (1988-01-01)1 January 1988 (aged 28) 1.87 m 131 397 Al Ahly 8 P Mahmoud Ramadan (1984-03-07)7 March 1984 (aged 32) 1.85 m 305 912 Al Ahly 9 CB Eslam Isaa (1988-07-02)2 July 1988 (aged 28) 1.86 m 204 617 Club Africain 15 RW Mohamed Amer (1987-12-12)12 December 1987 (aged 28) 1.87 m 150 498 Al Ahly 19 CB Mohamed El-Bassiouny (1990-05-10)10 May 1990 (aged 26) 1.86 m 110 360 Alexandria SC 20 CB Mohamed Hasehm (1988-01-23)23 January 1988 (aged 28) 1.80 m 210 712 Aviation SC 24 P Ibrahim El-Masry (1989-03-11)11 March 1989 (aged 27) 1.95 m 175 423 Al Ahly 39 LB Yehia El-Deraa (1995-06-17)17 June 1995 (aged 21) 1.86 m 88 186 Hellopolice 66 RB Ahmed El-Ahmar (1984-01-27)27 January 1984 (aged 32) 1.84 m 397 1351 Zamalek 72 GK Mahmoud Khalil (1991-06-01)1 June 1991 (aged 25) 1.92 m 122 0 El Jaish 88 GK Karim Handawy (1988-05-01)1 May 1988 (aged 28) 1.86 m 256 0 Al Ahly 89 P Mohamed Mamdouh Shebib (1989-01-04)4 January 1989 (aged 27) 1.89 m 210 953 Zamalek 90 LB Aly Mohamed (1990-12-14)14 December 1990 (aged 25) 1.95 m 231 703 Al Jazira 91 RW Mohamed Sanad (1991-01-16)16 January 1991 (aged 25) 1.84 m 120 334 Komlói Bányász

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	5	4	0	1	153	141	+12	8[lower-alpha 1]	Quarter-finals
2	Slovenia	5	4	0	1	137	126	+11	8[lower-alpha 1]
3	Brazil (H)	5	2	1	2	141	150	−9	5
4	Poland	5	2	0	3	139	140	−1	4
5	Egypt	5	1	1	3	129	143	−14	3
6	Sweden	5	1	0	4	132	131	+1	2

Source: IHF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw.
(H) Hosts
Notes:

1. Slovenia 25–28 Germany

7 August 2016 (2016-08-07) 21:50	Slovenia	27–26	Egypt	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Pálsson, Elíasson (ISL)
	Janc 8	(15–15)	El-Ahmar 7
	3× 9×	Report	4× 5× 1×

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9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) 19:50	Egypt	26–25	Sweden	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Mousaviyan, Kolahdouzan (IRI)
	Sanad 7	(12–13)	Petersen 5
	4× 7×	Report	3× 8×

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11 August 2016 (2016-08-11) 11:30	Poland	33–25	Egypt	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Santos, Fonseca (POR)
	Daszek 6	(16–10)	Eissa 6
	4× 7×	Report	3× 6× 1×

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13 August 2016 (2016-08-13) 16:40	Egypt	27–27	Brazil	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Lah, Sok (SLO)
	El-Ahmar 9	(15–13)	four players 4
	3× 7×	Report	4× 2×

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15 August 2016 (2016-08-15) 11:30	Germany	31–25	Egypt	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Hansen, Gjeding (DEN)
	Gensheimer 7	(15–12)	Sanad 7
	2× 9×	Report	1× 3×

Egypt has qualified a total of five judokas for each of the following weight classes at the Games. Mohamed Mohy Eldin, Mohamed Abdelaal, Ramadan Darwish, and three-time Olympian Islam El Shehaby were ranked among the top 22 eligible judokas for men in the IJF World Ranking List of 30 May 2016, while Ahmed Abdelrahman at men's extra-lightweight (60 kg) earned a continental quota spot from the African region, as the highest-ranked Egyptian judoka outside of direct qualifying position.[22]

El Shehaby lost his first match to Israel's Or Sasson, but refused to bow or shake hands with him, resulting to a loud jeer from the crowd. When Sasson extended his hand to shake after the match, El Shehaby backed away, shaking his head.[23] The referee called El Shehaby back to the mat and obliged him to bow, at which point El Shehaby gave a quick nod of his head. El Shehaby's conduct was widely condemned as unsportsmanlike. It is unclear what potential punishment El Shehaby or Egyptian judo as a whole could face, but his hopes of medaling were dashed regardless due to Sasson's decisive performance in the quarterfinals.

Before his match, El Shehaby was under pressure to forfeit, as Iranian Javad Mahjoub had done years earlier before his match with Or Sasson.[24]

El Shehaby's refusal to shake hands had precedent, in actions by another member of Egypt's team. Egyptian judoka Ramadan Darwish had refused to shake hands with his Israeli opponent Ariel Ze'evi, another Israeli Olympic bronze medalist, in both the 2011 Judo Grand Slam and the 2012 Judo Grand Prix.[25][26]

The Egyptian Olympic Committee, which had put pressure on El Shehaby to have the match with Sasson go on as planned, stated that El Shehaby's actions after the match were a personal decision. Both the International Olympic Committee and the International Judo Federation stated that they would review the incident.[27][28]

The Disciplinary Committee of the International Olympic Committee issued a "severe reprimand" to El Shehaby for behavior violating "the rules of fair play and against the spirit of friendship embodied in the Olympic Values", and he was sent home before the Olympics closing ceremony. The IOC Disciplinary Committee also requested that the Egyptian Olympic Committee in the future must ensure that all Egyptian athletes are properly educated as to the Olympic values, before they participate in the Olympic Games.[29]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ahmed Abelrahman	Men's −60 kg	Bye	Bestaev (KGZ) L 000–101	Did not advance
Mohamed Mohy Eldin	Men's −73 kg	Bye	Ganbaatar (MGL) L 001–100	Did not advance
Mohamed Abdelaal	Men's −81 kg	Bye	Uuganbaatar (MGL) W 101–100	Khalmurzaev (RUS) L 000–010	Did not advance
Ramadan Darwish	Men's −100 kg	Bye	Dugasse (SEY) W 100–000	Armenteros (CUB) W 001–000	Gasimov (AZE) L 000–100	Did not advance	Frey (GER) L 000–100	Did not advance	7
Islam El Shehaby	Men's +100 kg	—	Sasson (ISR) L 000–100	Did not advance

Egyptian athletes have qualified for the following spots to compete in modern pentathlon. Eslam Hamad and Haydy Morsy secured a selection each in the men's and women's event respectively by virtue of their top finish at the 2015 African Championships. Two-time Olympian Amro El-Geziry, who finished behind Hamad at the African Championships, and his younger brother Omar ranked among the top 10 modern pentathletes, not yet qualified, in the men's event based on the UIPM World Rankings as of 1 June 2016. With the Egyptian men to guarantee their selection at the 2016 World Championships, the choice of four modern pentathletes going to the Games was determined by the NOC. In the event, the Egyptian team decided to select them over Eslam Hamad, as the nation's top two on the list.[30]

Egypt has qualified one boat each in the men's and women's single sculls for the Games at the 2015 African Continental Qualification Regatta in Tunis, Tunisia.[31]

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Egypt has qualified one sailor in the men's Laser class through the African continental regatta.

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Egyptian shooters have achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2014 and 2015 ISSF World Championships, the 2015 ISSF World Cup series, and African Championships, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 31 March 2016.[32]

Men

Women

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)

Egyptian swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):[33][34]

Men

Women

Egypt has fielded a squad of nine synchronized swimmers to compete in the women's duet and team events, by virtue of their top national finish for Africa at the 2015 FINA World Championships.

Egypt has entered four athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. Brothers Khalid and Omar Assar secured places on the Egyptian squad in the men's singles, while 2012 Olympians Nadeen El-Dawlatly and Dina Meshref in the women's singles; all of them have reached the semifinals in each of their respective events at the 2015 All-Africa Games.[35]

Yousra Abdel Razek was awarded the third spot to build the women's team for the Games as the top African nation in the ITTF Olympic Rankings.[36]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Khalid Assar	Men's singles	Wang Jn (CGO) L 3–4	Did not advance
Omar Assar		Bye	Afanador (PUR) W 4–2	Kou (UKR) L 3–4	Did not advance
Nadeen El-Dawlatly	Women's singles	Bye	Lovas (HUN) L 0–4	Did not advance
Dina Meshref		Saidani (TUN) W 4–0	Komwong (THA) L 1–4	Did not advance
Yousra Abdel Razek Nadeen El-Dawlatly Dina Meshref	Women's team	—				Singapore (SIN) L 0–3	Did not advance

Egypt entered three athletes into the taekwondo competition at the Olympics. 2012 Olympian Hedaya Malak qualified automatically for the women's lightweight category (57 kg) by finishing in the top 6 WTF Olympic rankings.[37] Meanwhile, Ghofran Zaki and Seham El-Sawalhy secured the remaining spots on the Egyptian team by virtue of their top two finish respectively in the men's lightweight (68 kg) and women's welterweight category (67 kg) at the 2016 African Qualification Tournament in Agadir, Morocco.[38]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ghofran Zaki	Men's −68 kg	Abu-Ghaush (JOR) L 1–9	Bye		Lee D-h (KOR) L 6–14	Did not advance	7
Hedaya Malak	Women's −57 kg	Patiño (COL) W 13–0 PTG	Hamada (JPN) W 3–0 SUD	Calvo (ESP) L 0–1 SUD	Bye	Asemani (BEL) W 1–0 SUD
Seham El-Sawalhy	Women's −67 kg	Gbagbi (CIV) L 3–4	Did not advance

Egyptian weightlifters have qualified six men's and three women's quota places for the Rio Olympics based on their combined team standing by points at the 2014 and 2015 IWF World Championships. The team must allocate these places to individual athletes by 20 June 2016.[42]

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Ahmed Saad	−62 kg	133	5	161	7	294	5
Mohamed Ihab	−77 kg	165	4	196	3	361
Ibrahim Abdelbaki		152	9	186	9	338	9
Ragab Abdelhay	−94 kg	174	5	213	5	387	5
Gaber Mohamed	−105 kg	173	12	204	13	377	12
Ahmed Mohamed	+105 kg	190	10	—	—	190	DNF

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Esraa El-Sayed	−63 kg	100	5	116	8	216	7
Sara Samir	−69 kg	112	3	143	3	255
Shaimaa Khalaf	+75 kg	117	7	161	3	278	4

Egypt has qualified a total of ten wrestlers for each of the following weight classes into the Olympic competition, as a result of their semifinal triumphs at the 2016 African & Oceania Qualification Tournament.[43]

On 11 May 2016, United World Wrestling decided to revoke an Olympic license from Egypt in men's freestyle 97 kg, due to doping violations at the African Qualification Tournament.[44]

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mohamed Zaghloul	−86 kg	Bye	Ceballos (VEN) L 0–3 PO	Did not advance					17
Diaaeldin Kamal	−125 kg	Chebbi (TUN) W 4–0 ST	Ghasemi (IRI) L 0–3 PO	Did not advance		Jarvis (CAN) L 0–3 PO	Did not advance		9

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Haithem Mahmoud	−59 kg	Bye	Yun W-c (PRK) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance					12
Adham Ahmed Saleh	−66 kg	Bye	Arutyunyan (ARM) L 0–4 ST	Did not advance		Bye	Ryu H-s (KOR) L 0–3 PO	Did not advance	18
Mahmoud Fawzy	−75 kg	Mursaliyev (AZE) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance						15
Ahmed Othman	−85 kg	Bye	Beleniuk (UKR) L 0–4 ST	Did not advance		Bye	Bayryakov (BUL) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance	14
Hamdy El-Said	−98 kg	Bye	Alexuc-Ciurariu (ROU) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance					10
Abdellatif Mohamed	−130 kg	Chernetskyi (UKR) L 0–4 ST	Did not advance						17

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Enas Mostafa	−69 kg	Bye	Acosta (VEN) W 3–1 PP	Oliveira (BRA) W 5–0 VT	Vorobieva (RUS) L 0–5 VT	Bye		Syzdykova (KAZ) L 1–3 PP	5
Samar Amer	−75 kg	Bukina (RUS) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance						12

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