Egypt sent a delegation to compete at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia. Egyptian athletes won six gold medals, twelve silver and ten bronze, enabling their country to finish 23rd out of 123 on the medal table. Athletics and powerlifting were equally successful, with each sport giving 3 gold medals each to Egypt.
Background The Egyptian team included 45 sportspeople, 12 women and 33 men. This was 7 more women than the country had sent to Atlanta for the 1996 Games. General Union of Sports Clubs for the Disabled had served as Egypt's NPC since 1982. In 1998, two years before the Sydney Games, it was replaced by the Egyptian Disabled Sports Federation as a result of President of the Council of Ministers Order No. (659).
Medals Egypt finished the Sydney hosted Games with 28 totals medals, 6 gold, 12 silver and 10 bronze, enabling their country to finish 23rd out of 123 on the medal table."A promise is a promise" , Al-Ahram weekly, November 2, 2000
Medal Name Sport Event Mahmoud Elatar Athletics Men's discus F58 Mahmoud Elatar Athletics Men's javelin F58 Ibrahim Allam Athletics Men's shot put F58 Gomma G. Ahmed Powerlifting Men's -56 kg Metwaly Mathana Powerlifting Men's -60 kg Fatma Omar Powerlifting Women's -44 kg Ahmed Hassan Mahmoud Athletics Men's 400m T37 Tarek Hussein Athletics Men's discus F37 Ibrahim Ali Athletics Men's discus F57 Metawa Abou Elkhair Athletics Men's discus F58 El Sayed Moussa Athletics Men's javelin F58 Hany Elbehiry Athletics Men's shot put F58 Osama Elsemegawy Powerlifting Men's -52 kg Shaban Ibrahim Powerlifting Men's -67.5 kg Abd Elmonem Farag Powerlifting Men's -90 kg Sherif Bakr Powerlifting Men's -100 kg Abir Ibrahim Aly Nail Powerlifting Women's -48 kg Hend Abd Elaty Powerlifting Women's -82.5 kg Ahmed Hassan Mahmoud Athletics Men's 200m T37 Hossam Abd Ellatif Athletics Men's discus F57 Ibrahim Ali Athletics Men's javelin F57 Hany Elbehiry Athletics Men's javelin F58 Karim Feleifal Athletics Women's discus F58 Zakia Abdin Athletics Women's javelin F58 Mervat Omar Athletics Women's shot put F58 El Sayed Abd El Aal Powerlifting Men's -75 kg Mostafa Hamed Powerlifting Men's -82.5 kg Nadia Ali Powerlifting Women's 67.5 kg
Athletics
Egypt won three gold medals, six silver and seven bronze in athletics."Guts and Glory" , Egypt Today, August 2008 Egyptian athletes competed at the 1999 Disabled Sports USA DS/USA's National Summer Games as part of their preparation efforts for the 2000 Games.Evans, Elizabeth. "Springfield College plays host to two summer national championships." Palaestra Fall 1997: 36+. Academic OneFile. Web. 26 Oct. 2016. Mahmoud Elatar set a world record of 49.92m in men's javelin F58 while Ibrahim Allam set a personal record of 14.77m in shot put, both athletes gained gold medals.
Powerlifting Egypt won three gold medals, five silver and four bronze, dropping from first place in Atlanta to third in Sydney, behind China and Nigeria.
Metwalli Mathana made his second Paralympic appearance at these Games. Fatma Omar made her Paralympic debut in Sydney, winning her first gold medal in powerlifting at the Games in the -44 kg class. Ahmed Gomaa Mohamed Ahmed participated in his third Games in Sydney. Mohamed Ahmed took up the sport in 1984, and decided to compete internationally because he was able to lift more than his able-bodied counterparts in Egypt. In the period around these Games, he was training five days a week, three hours a day. He was getting funding from the Egyptian Paralympic Committee to allow him to train full-time. In Sydney, he repeated his performance from Atlanta, winning gold and setting a world record in the men's -56 kg class. Osama Elserngawy won silver in the Men's 52 kg event.
See also Egypt at the Paralympics Egypt at the 2000 Summer Olympics
External links International Paralympic Committee
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