Azmy Mehelba (born 26 March 1991) is an Egyptian sport Olympic shooter, who began shooting at age 11. He was selected to join the Egyptian national men
skeet shooting team by the age of 14 and participated in his first international competition at age 15.
Current World ranking number 1 and World record holder 125/125 at World championship Baku 2023, he has been keeping the top of the ranking for long period. He was also ranked World number 1 and World number 2 several times before by the
International Shooting Sport Federation
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He represented his country in many international competitions and has qualified for four consecutive Olympic Games, the
2012 Summer Olympics in London, the
2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,
2020 Summer Olympics
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in Tokyo and
2024 Summer Olympics
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in Paris. He was the first Arab & African athlete in all sports to qualify for Rio 2016 where he finished in 10th place (just one target from the finals) and Paris 2024.
Due to his achievements, unequalled in the history of sports shooting in Egypt, the shooting range at the Alexandria shooting club has been named after him. His brother,
Abdel-Aziz Mehelba, also competed for Egypt at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
and 2021 Tokyo Olympic games, they also won together in world cup final Doha, Qatar 2023 Gold and Silver in trap and skeet respectively for the first time in history of shooting as two brothers winning together in same competition after they have done it before in world cup Lontao 2021 winning Gold and Bronze in Skeet and trap respectively.
Achievements
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Egyptian male sport shooters
Living people
Olympic shooters for Egypt
Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
1991 births
Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
Shooters at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Egypt
Mediterranean Games medalists in shooting
Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
Arab Games silver medalists
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