Mahassen Hala Fattouh (born 27 August 1989) is a Lebanese

Olympic weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

. She represented Lebanon at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's 76 kg event, finishing 9th overall. She holds 9 Lebanese national records across the 64kg, 71kg, and 76kg weight classes and has earned 14 IWF international medals. In 2014, Fattouh became the first woman to represent Lebanon internationally in weightlifting, competing in the women's 63 kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan. In 2018, she earned the first women's IWF international medal for Lebanon in the women's 63 kg event at the

2018 Mediterranean Games The 2018 Mediterranean Games ( es, Juegos Mediterráneos de 2018), officially known as the XVIII Mediterranean Games ( es, XVIII Juegos Mediterráneos) and commonly known as Tarragona 2018, was an international multi-sport event held from 22 Jun ...

held in Tarragona, Spain. In 2019, she became the first female Arab Champion at the Arab Championship held in Amman, Jordan. In 2024, Fattouh earned the first medal ever for Lebanese women's weightlifting at an Asian Championships event by achieving bronze in the clean and jerk at the 2024 Asian Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

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