Nahla Ramadan Mohamed (

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: نهلة رمضان; born 4 April 1985 in

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) is an Egyptian weightlifter and the pioneer of weightlifting in Egypt, Africa and the Arab world.Sports-reference profile
/ref> She competed for Egypt at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

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At the 2004 Summer Olympics, competing in the heavyweight division, she did not finish the competition, being unable to register a lift in the clean and jerk. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the super-heavyweight category and finished fifth. However, four years later in 2016 samples taken at London 2012 from the Armenian bronze medalist Hripsime Khurshudyan were tested positive for prohibited substances. Therefore, Egypt's Nahla Ramadan, who initially placed fifth, came fourth place.

Achievements

/ref> In 2003 at the world junior weightlifting Grand Prix championship in Budapest, Nahla Ramadan became the game's top-ranked athlete after collecting three gold medals and breaking two world records in the process, an unprecedented accomplishment for an Egyptian of any sex in the sport. When she was just 18 years old, she has set a new world record of 145 kg in the jerk, two kilograms more than that of Bulgaria's Krenz Geuiguny. Ramadan's second world record was in the total number of kilograms lifted: 260 kg, again at Geuiguny's expense and her previous record of 255 kg. In the snatch, Ramadan heaved 115 kg to clinch her third gold medal but this time failed to break the world record. In 2002, she won two silver medals and a bronze in the World Championships in the Czech Republic and two bronze medals for the Clean & Jerk lift and total. in 2003 at the World Championships in Poland. In 2006, she won the bronze medal for the Snatch lift at the World Championships in Dominican Republic.
/ref> Nahla also won three gold medals in the 2003 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 75 kg, when the Chinese weightlifting champion Shang Shichun was stripped of her medals as she was tested positive on a drug test. ABC News
/ref> She also won three gold medals at the

2007 All-Africa Games The 9th All-Africa Games took place between 11 and 23 July 2007 in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. Algiers is the first city to hold All-Africa Games for a second time. The 1978 All-Africa Games were held there. Besides Algeria, only Nige ...

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Family and childhood

Nahla Ramadan was born into a family of weightlifters in Alexandria's district of Al-Wardyan. Her father Ramadan Mohamed El-Sayed was a national weightlifting champion and later head coach of the Alexandria weightlifting zone. Her elder sister Nagham made headlines of her own on the international scene, albeit her feats were nothing comparable to that of Nahla's. A student at the Cleopatra Experimental School in Alexandria, Ramadan was first spotted by the Bulgarian Yurden Ivanov, the former world and Olympic champion who was selected as head coach of all Egyptian national teams. Ivanov canvassed the country in a bid to select the most promising athletes and was quickly impressed with Ramadan. He predicted—and correctly in hindsight—that she would become a world champion.

References

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