Samah Ramadan Mohamed (also ''Samah Ramadan'', ar, سماح رمضان محمد; born April 16, 1978, in

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) is an Egyptian

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, who played for the women's heavyweight category. She is a two-time Olympian, and a five-time medalist at the African Judo Championships. She also defeated Nigeria's Adijat Ayuba for the

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in the 78 kg class at the

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in Algiers, Algeria. Ramadan made her official debut for the

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, where she lost the first preliminary round match of the women's heavyweight class (+78 kg), by an ippon and a soto makikomi (outer wraparound), to Russia's Tea Donguzashvili. Ramadan later qualified for the repechage rounds, but she was beaten in her first match by South Korea's Choi Sook-Ie. At the

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, Ramadan competed for the second time in the women's +78 kg class. She received a bye for the second preliminary round, before losing out again this time to Cuba's

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by an ippon and a

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(shoulder throw). Because her opponent advanced further into the semi-finals, Ramadan offered another for the bronze medal by defeating Australia's Janelle Shepherd in the repechage rounds. She finished only in seventh place, after losing out the final repechage bout to another South Korean judoka Kim Na-Young, who successfully scored a

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-awasete-ippon (two full points), and a kesa-gatame (scarf hold), at three minutes and thirty seconds.

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NBC Olympics Profile
Egyptian female judoka Living people Olympic judoka for Egypt Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics 1978 births Martial artists from Cairo African Games gold medalists for Egypt African Games medalists in judo Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games 20th-century Egyptian women 20th-century Egyptian people 21st-century Egyptian women 21st-century Egyptian sportspeople {{Egypt-judo-bio-stub