Egypt at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Egypt at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	EGY
NPC	Egyptian Paralympic Committee
Website	paralympic.org.eg
in Tokyo, Japan
Competitors	49 in 8 sports
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 5 Bronze 2 Total 7
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Egypt competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan from 25 August to 6 September. This was Egypt's thirteenth appearance at the Summer Paralympics.

Medalists

Main article: 2020 Summer Paralympics medal table

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Sherif Othman	Powerlifting	Men's 59 kg	27 August
Silver	Rehab Ahmed	Powerlifting	Women's 50 kg	27 August
Silver	Mahmoud Attia	Powerlifting	Men's 72 kg	28 August
Silver	Fatma Omar	Powerlifting	Women's 67 kg	28 August
Silver	Mohamed El-Zayat	Taekwondo	Men's 61 kg	2 September
Bronze	Mohamed Elelfat	Powerlifting	Men's 80 kg	28 August
Bronze	Hany Abdelhady	Powerlifting	Men's 88 kg	29 August

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:^[1]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	2	1	3
Badminton	1	0	1
Goalball	0	6	6
Powerlifting	7	8	15
Sitting Volleyball	12	0	12
Swimming	2	2	4
Table Tennis	4	2	6
Taekwondo	1	1	2
Total	29	20	49

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Source:^[2]

Athlete	Event	Final
		Result	Rank
Men
Hamada Hassan	High jump T63	1.69	8
Mohamed Mohamed Ramadan	Discus throw F37
Women
Dina Zamly Ali	400 metres T37	1:17.73	7

Badminton

Main articles: Badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and Badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Qualification

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ahmed Eldakrory	Men's singles SU5	Cheah (MAS) L (3–21, 2–21)	Imai (JPN) L (5–21, 4–21)	Fang (TPE) L (6–21, 2–21)	4	Did not advance

Goalball

Main article: Goalball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

With the withdrawal of the Algeria women's team by 21 April 2021, the International Paralympic Committee selected Egypt as a replacement.^[3] A goalball team has up to six players, separate to team staff (of which, up to three may be on the team bench as well).

Women

The following is the Egypt roster in the women's goalball tournament of the 2020 Summer Paralympics.^[4]

No.	Player	Class	Date of birth (age)
1	Hanan Tolba	B1	(1995-11-20)20 November 1995 (aged 25)
2	Esraa Walid Ezzeldin	B2	(2002-07-27)27 July 2002 (aged 19)
3	Gehad Ezzeldin	B2	(1999-07-08)8 July 1999 (aged 22)
4	Israa Gadalla	B2	(2003-03-01)1 March 2003 (aged 18)
5	Hassnaa Elgabry	B2	(1996-03-04)4 March 1996 (aged 25)
6	Aya Ahmed	B1	(1995-12-06)6 December 1995 (aged 25)

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Turkey	4	3	0	1	30	11	+19	9	Quarterfinals
2	United States	4	3	0	1	22	10	+12	9
3	Japan (H)	4	2	1	1	18	13	+5	7
4	Brazil	4	1	1	2	23	19	+4	4
5	Egypt	4	0	0	4	3	43	−40	0

Source: TOCOG
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of wins; 4) goals against; 5) head-to-head goal difference.
(H) Hosts

26 August 2021 14:45	Egypt	2–12	Turkey	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Raquel Gomez Aguado (Spain), Raili Sipura (Finland)
	Elgabry 1 Ezzeldin 1	Report	Sevd. Altunoluk 8 Sevt. Altunoluk 2 Güler 1 Çelik 1

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27 August 2021

19:00

United States	10–0	Egypt
Dennis 1', 4', 5', 6' Czechowski 5', 12' Mason 7', 8' Miller 11', 15'	Report

Makuhari Messe, Tokyo

Referee: Vaida Pokvytytė (Lithuania), Bas Spaans (Netherlands)

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29 August 2021

10:30

Egypt	0–10	Japan
	Report	Hagiwara 1', 1', 5', 6', 7', 8', 8' Kakehata 1', 6', 7'

Makuhari Messe, Tokyo

Referee: Woradet Kultawongwattana (Thailand), Svitlana Moroz (Ukraine)

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30 August 2021

10:30

Brazil	11–1	Egypt
Gomes 1', 6', 7', 9', 11', 12', 15', 16' Ferreira 13', 14' Custodio 15'	Report	Elgabry 12'

Makuhari Messe, Tokyo

Referee: Launel Scott (Canada), Woradet Kultawongwattana (Thailand)

Powerlifting

Main article: Powerlifting at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Source:^[5]

Number	Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Men
1	Taha Abdelmajid	−54 kg	164	4
2	Sherif Othman	−59 kg	187
3	Mahmoud Attia	−72 kg	191
4	Mohamed Elelfat	−80 kg	212
5	Hany Abdelhady	−88 kg	214
6	Mohamed Ahmed	−97 kg	200	6
7	Amr Mosaad	+107 kg	206	6
Women
8	Rehab Ahmed	−50 kg	120
9	Gihan Abdelaziz	−55 kg	100	7
10	Fatma Korany	−61 kg	127	4
11	Fatma Omar	−67 kg	120
12	Amal Mahmoud	−73 kg	131	4
13	Gehan Hassan	−79 kg	110	6
14	Amany Ali	−86 kg	131	4
15	Randa Mahmoud	+86 kg	128	5

Sitting volleyball

Main article: Sitting volleyball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Egyptian men's sitting volleyball team qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics after winning at the 2019 ParaVolley Africa Zonal Championships.^[6]

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage				Semifinal	Final / BM / Cl.
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Egypt men's	Men's tournament	Bosnia and Herzegovina L 0–3	Japan W 3–0	RPC L 0–3	3	Did not advance	Fifth place match  Germany W 3–2	5

Men's tournament

Main article: Sitting volleyball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's tournament

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	RPC (RPC)	3	3	0	3	9	0	MAX	225	151	1.490	Semifinals
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	2	1	2	6	3	2.000	205	176	1.165
3	Egypt	3	1	2	1	3	6	0.500	193	174	1.109	Fifth place match
4	Japan	3	0	3	0	0	9	0.000	103	225	0.458	Seventh place match

Source: TOCOG

27 August 2021 (2021-08-27) 22:00 v	Egypt	0–3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Andre Calado (BRA), Neal Konowalyk (CAN)
	(23–25, 22–25, 15–25) Results Statistics

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29 August 2021 (2021-08-29) 18:30 v	Japan	0–3	Egypt	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Marie-Claude Richer (CAN), Huang Xiao (CHN)
	(11–25, 7–25, 6–25) Results Statistics

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31 August 2021 (2021-08-31) 10:00 v	Egypt	0–3	RPC (RPC)	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Dominik Raca (CRO), Ute Fischer (GER)
	(21–25, 17–25, 20–25) Results Statistics

Fifth place match

2 September 2021 (2021-09-02) 15:30 v	Egypt	3–2	Germany	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Kim Jong-heun (KOR), Marie-Claude Richer (CAN)
	(25–23, 24–26, 25–18, 22–25, 15–8) Results Statistics

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Three Egyptian swimmers have successfully entered the Paralympic Games slot after breaking the minimum qualification score (MQS).^[7][8][9]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Men
Youssef Elsayed	50m freestyle S3
	200m freestyle S3
	150m individual medley SM3		11	Did Not Advance
Zeyad Kahil	200m freestyle S5		11	Did Not Advance
	100m breaststroke SB4		11	Did Not Advance
Women
Malak Abdelshafi	100m breaststroke SB4		8		8
Ayaallah Tewfick	50m freestyle S6		13	Did Not Advance
	400m freestyle S6
Mixed
Egypt	Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Relay - 20 Points		12	Did Not Advance

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Egypt has entered six athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. All of them qualified from 2019 ITTF African Para Championships which was held in Alexandria, Egypt.^[10]

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Men
Sameh Mohamed Eid Saleh	Individual C4	Thomas (FRA) L 1–3	Ogunkunle (NGR) W 3–1	—	2 Q	Astan (INA) W 3–2	Kim (KOR) L 0–3	did not advance
Ayman Zenaty	Individual C5	Baus (GER) L 0–3	Öztürk (TUR) L 0–3	—	3	did not advance
Ibrahim Hamadtou	Individual C6	Park (KOR) L 0–3	Chen (CHN) L 0–3	—	3	did not advance
Sayed Youssef	Individual C7	Ballestrino (AUS) W 3–1	Stroh (BRA) L 1–3	Inoue (JPN) W 3–0	2 Q	Yagi (JPN) W 3–1	Yan (CHN) L 1–3	did not advance
Mohamed Sameh Eid Saleh Ayman Zenaty	Team C4–5	—
Ibrahim Hamadtou Sayed Youssef	Team C6–7	—
Women
Faiza Mahmoud	Individual C5	Zhang (CHN) L 0–3	Lundback (SWE) L 0–3	—	3	did not advance
Hanna Hammad	Individual C6	Lytovchenko (UKR) L 0–3	Julian (AUS) L 0–3	—	3	did not advance

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Egypt qualified two athletes to compete at the Paralympics competition. All of them are confirmed to compete after winning the gold medal at the 2020 African Qualification Tournament in Rabat, Morocco.^[11]

Athlete	Event	First round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mohamed El-Zayat	Men's –61 kg
Salma Ali Abd Al Moneem Hassan	Women's –58 kg

See also

• Egypt at the Paralympics
• Egypt at the 2020 Summer Olympics

References

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