Egypt at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Template:Infobox Olympics Egypt

Egypt is competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics which which is being held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008.

Archery

Egypt have sent archers to the Olympics for the third time, seeking the nation's first Olympic medal in the sport. Amr Ghanem earned the country a qualifying spot in the men's competition by placing second in the 2008 African championship.^[1] Amira Mansour did the same in the women's competition.^[2] Egypt has not confirmed its Olympic entrants.

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition<br\>Score	Opposition<br\>Score	Opposition<br\>Score	Opposition<br\>Score	Opposition<br\>Score	Opposition<br\>Score	Rank
Maged Youssef	Individual	605	62	Viktor Ruban (UKR) (3)

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition<br\>Score	Opposition<br\>Score	Opposition<br\>Score	Opposition<br\>Score	Opposition<br\>Score	Opposition<br\>Score	Rank
Soha Abed Elaal	Individual	587	57	Naomi Folkard (GBR) (8)

Athletics

Men

Hammer Throw
- Mohsen Anani

Badminton

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Hadia Hosny	Singles	Deyanira Angulo (MEX) (2:1)	Petya Nedelcheva (BUL) (0:2)	Did not advance

Boxing

Egypt qualified three boxers for the Olympic boxing tournament. Yasser was the first to qualify, at the World Championships.^[3] The other two Egyptian boxers qualified at the first African qualifying tournament.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Hosam Bakr Abdin	Welterweight
Mohamed Hikal	Middleweight	James Degale (GBR) (-4:13)	Disqualified
Ramadan Yasser	Light heavyweight	Ramazan Magamedau (BLR) (+10:10)	Abdelhafid Benchabla (ALG)

Equestrian

Individual Jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Ind. Round 1		Ind. Round 2			Ind. Round 3			Final
			Ind. Round 1		Ind. Round 2			Ind. Round 3			Round A		Round B		Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Karim El Zoghby	Aladin	Individual

Fencing

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Ahmed Nabil	Individual épée	Nikolai Novosjolov (EST) (8:15)	Did not advance
Mostafa Nagaty	Individual foil
Mahmoud Samir	Individual sabre
Gamal Fathy	Individual sabre
Shadi Talaat	Individual sabre
<br\><br\><br\>	Team sabre

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Aya El Sayed	Individual épée
Iman Shaban	Individual foil	Shaimaa El Gammal (EGY) (12:15)	Did not advance
Shaimaa El Gammal	Individual foil	Iman Shaban (EGY) (15:12)	Nam Hyun-Hee (KOR) (6:15)	Did not advance
Iman El Gammal	Individual foil	Indra Angad-Gaur (NED) (4:13)	Did not advance

Gymnastics

Artistic

Men

Athlete	Event	Apparatus						Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Vault	Floor	Pommel horse	Rings	Parallel bars	Horizontal bar	Total	Rank	Total	Rank
Mohamed Serour	All-around

Women

Athlete	Event	Apparatus				Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Vault	Floor	Uneven Bars	Balance Beam	Total	Rank	Total	Rank
Sherine El-Zeiny	All-around

Handball

Men's competition

Men's team. Qualified by winning the 2008 African Championship in Angola.

Goalkeepers: Mohamed Nakib and Walid Abdel-Maksoud
Wings: Moustafa Hussien and Belal Mabrouk
Pivots: Ramadan Mohamed and Hany El-Fakharany
Backs: Abdel-Razak Abou-Elfetouh, Amr El-Kalioby, Hussien Mabrouk, Hassan Yousry, Mohamed Abd-Elsalam, Mahmoud Hasaballah, Hassan Mabrouk and Ahmed El-Ahmar

Athlete	Event	Group stage					Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Men's team (see above)	Men's	Denmark (DEN) 23 - 23 (10 - 11)	Russia (RUS) Aug 12 10:45	Germany (GER) Aug 14 09:00	South Korea (KOR) Aug 16 10:45	Iceland (ISL) Aug 18 09:00

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Judo

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	First Repechage Round	Repechage Quarterfinals	Repechage Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Amin El Hady	−66 kg
Hatem Abdel Akher	+100 kg
Hesham Mesbah	−90 kg
Islam El Shehaby	+100 kg

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	First Repechage <br\>Round	Repechage <br\>Quarterfinals	Repechage <br\>Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Samah Ramadan	+78 kg

Modern Pentathlon

Men

Athlete	Shoot	Fence	Swim	Ride	Run	Total Points	Rank
Amro El Geziry

Women

Athlete	Shoot	Fence	Swim	Ride	Run	Total Points	Rank
Omnia Fakhry
Aya Medany

Rowing

Men

Athlete(s)	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete(s)	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Aly Ibrahim	Single sculls	7:43.70	3rd in Heat 6 19th Overall
Ibrahim Abd El Razek Mohamed Zidan Ahmed Gad Amin Ramadan	Lightweight<br\> fours	6:11.71	5th in Heat 1 13th Overall

Women

Athlete(s)	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete(s)	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Heba Ahmed	Single sculls	8:46.96	4th in Heat 6 25th Overall	Did not qualify

Shooting

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final		Rank
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Hazem Mohamed	50 m rifle Prone
Mohamed Amer	50 m Rifle Three Positions
Mahmod Abdelaly	10 m air pistol	563	47th	Not qualified		47th
Samy Razaek	50 m pistol
Franco Donato	Skeet
Adham Medhat	Trap	108	32nd	Not qualified		32nd

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final		Rank
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Shimaa Abdel-Latif	10 m air rifle	393	23rd	Did not qualify		23rd
Mona El-Hawary	skeet

Synchronized swimming

Egypt also qualified for Synchronized swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Technical Routine		Free Routine (Preliminary)				Free Routine (Final)
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total Points	Rank
	Duet
	Team

Table tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
El-Sayed Lashin	Singles
Adel Massaad	Singles
Ahmed Ali Saleh	Singles

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz	Singles
Noha Yousry	Singles

Taekwondo

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage Quarterfinals	Repechage Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Noha Safwat Hafez	+67 kg

Volleyball

Indoor

Men's competition

Athlete	Event	Group stage					Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Men's team (see above)	Men's	Brazil (BRA) 3 - 0	Poland (POL) Aug 12 12:00	Germany (GER) Aug 14 12:00	Russia (RUS) Aug 16 12:00	Serbia (SRB) Aug 18 14:30

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Weightlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Mohamed Abd Elbaki	-62 kg	129	12th	159	7th	288	8th
Tarik Abdelazim	-77 kg
Mahmoud Elhaddad	-77 kg
Abdelrahman El Sayed	-105 kg

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Abir Khalil	-69 kg

Wrestling

Men's Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 Final	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage Round 1	Repechage Round 2	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Hassan Madany	−60 kg
Saleh Emara	−96 kg

Women's Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 Final	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage Round 1	Repechage Round 2	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Haiat Farag	−63 kg

Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 Final	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage Round 1	Repechage Round 2	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Mostafa Hassan	−55 kg
Ashraf Mohamed Meligy	−60 kg
Karam Gaber	−96 kg
Yasser Abdelrahman Sakr	−120 kg

References

External Links

Egyptian NOC page on official 2008 Summer Olympics Website

[ArcheryMen-1] FITA Olympic Qualification - Men

[ArcheryWomen-2] FITA Olympic Qualification - Women

[BoxingQualWorld-3] World Boxing Championships Chicago 2007

[BoxingQualAfrica-4] 1st AIBA African Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament

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