Abeer Essawy ( ar, عبير عيساوي; born September 23, 1986, in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the Capital city, capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of ...

) is an Egyptian

taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean martial arts, Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast k ...

practitioner, who competed in the women's featherweight category. She claimed two gold medals in the 55-kg division at the African Championships (2003 and 2005), and represented

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as a seventeen-year-old teen at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Essawy qualified for the Egyptian squad in the women's featherweight class (57 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in

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by defeating Ivory Coast's Mariam Bah for the top spot and securing a berth from the African Olympic Qualifying Tournament in her native

. With limited international experience, Essawy lost her opening fight 0–8 to Chinese Taipei's

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. When her Taiwanese opponent was defeated by Thailand's Nootcharin Sukkhongdumnoen in the quarterfinals, Essawy lost her chance to proceed into the repechage for the Olympic bronze medal.

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* * 1986 births Living people Egyptian female taekwondo practitioners Olympic taekwondo practitioners of Egypt Taekwondo practitioners at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Cairo Egyptian women 21st-century Egyptian women {{Egypt-taekwondo-bio-stub