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Egypt women's national basketball team

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Egypt
FIBA ranking38 Increase 1 (26 August 2024)[1]
Joined FIBA1934
FIBA zoneFIBA Africa
National federationEgyptian Basketball Federation
CoachEhab El-Alfy
AfroBasket
Appearances14
Medals (1966, 1968)
(1970, 1977)
(1974)

The Egypt women's national basketball team is the nationally controlled basketball team representing Egypt at world basketball competitions for women.

Results

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African Championship

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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]

Pan-Arab games

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Egypt's team was the runner-up in 2011, winning four matches and losing only to Lebanon.[3]

All Africa Games

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Egypt women's team won three bronze medals in Basketball at the All-Africa Games.

Current roster

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Roster for the 2023 Women's Afrobasket.[4]

Egypt women's national basketball team roster
Players Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr.
SF 0 Aya El-Fiky 20 – (2003-03-29)29 March 2003 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) Gezira Egypt
PG 1 Reem Moussa 29 – (1994-01-23)23 January 1994 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) Alexandria Egypt
SF 4 Meral Abdelgawad 24 – (1998-11-13)13 November 1998 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) Al Ahly Egypt
G 7 Nadine Mohamed 25 – (1998-01-21)21 January 1998 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Al Ahly Egypt
PG 8 Soraya Degheidy 28 – (1995-07-16)16 July 1995 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) Al Ahly Egypt
G 9 Asrar Bakr 24 – (1998-08-10)10 August 1998 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Alexandria Egypt
SF 10 Norhan Amed 27 – (1996-07-21)21 July 1996 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) Alexandria Egypt
PF 11 Radwa Sherif 25 – (1998-02-01)1 February 1998 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) Gezira Egypt
PF 13 Farida El-Sherif 24 – (1998-10-07)7 October 1998 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Heliopolis Egypt
C 14 Jana Sallman 17 – (2006-06-01)1 June 2006 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) BYU Cougars United States
C 15 Raneem El-Gedawy 26 – (1997-02-24)24 February 1997 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) Al Ahly Egypt
C 97 Fatma Aly 26 – (1997-02-03)3 February 1997 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Al Ittihad Egypt
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Legend
  • Club – describes last
    club before the tournament
  • Age – describes age
    on 28 July 2023

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "FIBA Ranking Presented by Nike". FIBA. 26 August 2024. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
  2. ^ the-sports.org
  3. ^ Basketball results at the Pan-Arab 2011 games official website Archived 3 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Team roster: Egypt". fiba.basketball. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
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