Hadir Mekhimar ( ar, هدير مخيمر; born November 22, 1997, in Cairo) is an Egyptian sport shooter. She shared a top prize with Hungary's

István Péni István Péni (born 14 February 1997) is a Hungarian sport shooter. He won a bronze medal in boys' 10 m air rifle shooting, and also shared a top prize with Egypt's Hadir Mekhimar in the mixed international rifle team at the 2014 Summer Youth Ol ...

in the mixed international rifle team at the

2014 Summer Youth Olympics The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports ...

. Mekhimar made her first Olympic team for Egypt as a 16-year-old at the

in Nanjing, China, where she earned a gold medal in shooting. In her first event, the girls' 10 m air rifle, Mekhimar fired a decent score of 399.6 to attain an eighteenth place from a field of twenty, missing out a chance to compete for the final. Two days later, Mekhimar had atoned from her premature air rifle elimination to help Hungarian colleague

strike a 10–2 victory over the Latin American duo of Fernanda Russo (Argentina) and José Santos Valdés (Mexico) in the gold medal match of the mixed rifle team competition.

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Nanjing 2014 Profile
1997 births Living people Egyptian female sport shooters Shooters at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Sportspeople from Cairo Olympic shooters of Egypt Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics 21st-century Egyptian women {{Egypt-sportshooting-bio-stub