Nada Hafez

Nada Hafez (born 28 August 1997) is an Egyptian sabre fencer.[1] She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics[2] and 2020 Summer Olympics in Sabre.[3]

Nada Hafez
Born (1997-08-28) 28 August 1997
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
CountryEgypt
SportFencing
Weaponsabre
Handright-handed
Head coachMahmoud Gindyia
FIE rankingcurrent ranking

Career

Nada Hafez started doing gymnastics at the age of 4 years old. When Nadia was 12 years old, she had to undergo surgery to change the shape of the leg bone. After the surgery doing gymnastics was suspended. Already at the age of 13 Nada started to excel and win all the possible competitions in her age category. Since 2014 she became a member of the Egyptian national senior fencing sabre women´s team. In 2015 she won her first Egyptian senior women´s sabre national republic competition. Nada is on the top of Egyptian national rank since 2014.

In 2016 she qualified through the African zonal qualification (Algeria) to the Olympics of Rio 2016.

In 2021 she qualified to the Tokyo as the Top ranked athlete from Africa. Nada won 1 silver (2018) and 2 bronze (2019,2014) African zonal championship. She also won the bronze medal at Belgium Tournoi satellite.

Personal life

Nada is a very successful student who always have excelled grades during her studies. She is currently studying at School of Medicine at Cairo university. Nada has 2 older siblings.

Awards

Nada won the queen of Egyptian sports beauty awarded Tatweeg news 2021.

References
  1. "Nada Hafez". Rio 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  2. "Nada HAFEZ". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  3. www.eurosport.com https://www.eurosport.com/geoblocking.shtml. Retrieved 2021-09-13. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)


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