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Lebanon At The 2012 Summer Olympics
Lebanon competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's sixteenth appearance at the Olympics, except the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne as a response to the Suez Crisis. The Lebanese Olympic Committee sent the nation's largest delegation to the Games, after the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. A total of 10 athletes, 3 men and 7 women, competed in 7 different sports. For the first time in its Olympic history, Lebanon was represented by more female than male athletes. Three of its athletes were born in the United States: foil fencers and siblings Zain and Mona Shaito, and freestyle swimmer Katya Bachrouche. Two other athletes had competed in Beijing, including sprinter Gretta Taslakian, who was at her third consecutive Olympics. Asian Games silver medalist Andrea Paoli, who became the first Lebanese taekwondo jin to participate in the Olympics, was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony. Lebanon, however, failed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lebanese Olympic Committee
Lebanese Olympic Committee ( ar, اللجنة الأولمبية اللبنانية, IOC code: LBN, 1964-2016: ''LIB'') is the National Olympic Committee representing Lebanon. In 1960 the Olympic Committee of Lebanon was awarded with the Count Alberto Bonacossa Trophy. Presidents * Sheikh Gabriel Gemayel (1947-1988) * Hussein Sejaan (1988-) * Toni Khoury (1988-1996) * Souhail Khoury (1996-2005; 2006-2008) * Antoine Chartier (2010-2013) * Jean Hammam (2013- ) See also *Lebanon at the Olympics References External links Lebanese Olympic Committee Lebanon Oly Oly may refer to: * Oly, informal name for Olympia, Washington, United States * OLY (: ), postnominals granted to participants in the Olympics People with the name * Oly (born 1992), American singer-songwriter and musician * Oly Hicks (born 1968) ... Lebanon at the Olympics 1947 establishments in Lebanon {{Lebanon-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fencing At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Foil
The men's foil competition in fencing at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on 31 July at the ExCeL London Exhibition Centre. There were 38 competitors from 20 nations. Lei Sheng of China won the gold medal, beating Alaaeldin Abouelkassem from Egypt in the final. It was the first medal in the individual men's foil for each of those nations. Choi Byung-chul of South Korea took bronze. The 2012 podium was the first time since 1904 that no European fencer won a medal in the event. Background This was the 26th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics except 1908 (when there was a foil display only rather than a medal event). Seven of the eight quarterfinalists from 2008 returned: gold medalist Benjamin Kleibrink of Germany, silver medalist Yuki Ota of Japan, fourth-place finisher Zhu Jun of China, fifth-place finisher Peter Joppich of Germany, sixth-place finisher Andrea Cassarà of Italy, seventh-place finisher Erwann Le Péchoux of France, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tvin Carole Moumjoghlian
Tvin Carole Moumjoghlian (born July 21, 1989) is a Lebanese table tennis player playing for Homenetmen Beirut. With her win at the West Asia Women's Qualification Tournament, she qualified for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Born in Beirut, she began playing table tennis at age 9, following into her father's footsteps, Raffi Moumjoghlian, who is a former Lebanese table tennis champion. She reached the second round at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China (losing to Olympic medalist Park Mi-Young) and headed the Lebanese team to the women's bronze medal at the 2011 Pan Arab Games. . ArabGames2011. Retrieved on 2011-12-18. Moumjoghlian holds a bachelor's degree in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 Metre Freestyle
The women's 800 metre freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics took place on 2–3 August at the London Aquatics Centre based at the Olympic park London. Aged only 15, American Katie Ledecky narrowly missed the world record on the final lap to recapture the Olympic title for the Americans since Brooke Bennett topped the podium in 2000. Strengthening her lead almost the entire race, she headed into the 750-metre turn under world-record pace, and pulled off a stunning upset from the rest of the field to post a personal best and smash Janet Evans' 23-year-old U.S. record in 8:14.63. Spain's Mireia Belmonte García added a second silver to her Olympic hardware in a national record of 8:18.76. Meanwhile, Great Britain's Rebecca Adlington, the reigning Olympic champion, tried to hold on with Ledecky earlier through the race, but faded down the stretch to pick up a bronze in 8:20.32. New Zealand's Lauren Boyle produced a spectacular swim to finish with a fourth-place time and an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 Metre Breaststroke
The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2012 Summer Olympics took place on 28–29 July at the London Aquatics Centre in London, United Kingdom. Cameron van der Burgh smashed a new world record to end South Africa's medal drought for an Olympic gold in the event. He blasted out to a 27.07 split on the first length, and pulled strongly ahead of the field to touch the wall first in 58.46, slashing 0.12 seconds off the record set by Australia's Brenton Rickard in a high-tech bodysuit from the 2009 World Championships. An underwater camera footage also showed him executing three illegal butterfly kicks on the pullout. The champion later admitted that he was doing it, saying that by not doing it "you are falling behind or giving yourself a disadvantage." Rickard's teammate Christian Sprenger ripped off a sterling time of 58.93 to snatch the silver, moving him to sixth all time in the event's history. Meanwhile, U.S. swimmer Brendan Hansen ended his three-year retirement to tak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wael Koubrousli
Wael Koubrousli / Kobrosly is a Lebanese/French swimmer who has competed at the 2008 Olympic Games, and the 2012 Olympic Games. Wael represented Lebanon in 7 World Championships from 2006 to 2013, at Shanghai, Melbourne, Manchester, Rome, UAE, Shanghai and Barcelona. He recorded more than 20 local swimming records, including in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke. At the 2007 Arab Games, he won the silver medal in the 100m breaststroke. After his participation in the Beijing Olympics, Kobrosly earned a scholarship from Club Nautique Havrais, in Le Havre, France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ..., to study for a master's degree of International Marketing from the "Universite Du Havre" in Le Havre city, where he trained under head coach Christos Paparrodopoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's Trap
The Women's trap event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 4 August 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks. The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 3 sets of 25 targets in trap shooting Trap shooting, or trapshooting in North America, is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting, which is shooting shotguns at clay targets. The other disciplines are skeet shooting and sporting clays. They are disting ..., with 10 targets being thrown to the left, 10 to the right, and 5 straight-away in each set. The shooters could take two shots at each target. The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired one additional round of 25 targets, where only one shot could be taken at each target. The total score from all 100 targets was used to determine final ranking. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Bassil
Ray Jacques Bassil ( ar, راي باسيل; born 20 October 1988) is a Lebanese trap shooter. She won gold at the 2016 ISSF World Cup in Nicosia, and at the 2019 Asian Shooting Championships in Doha. Bassil has also three times represented Lebanon at the Olympic Games, in 2012, 2016 and 2020. Career Bassil started trap-shooting aged eight, encouraged by her father Jacques. She began her competitive career in 2006. In 2007, Bassil won her first medal at the ISSF Junior World Championships held in Nicosia, Cyprus, winning bronze. She represented Lebanon at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing 18th, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she finished 14th. Bassil won her first career gold medal at the 2016 ISSF World Cup held in Nicosia. With her gold medal win at the 2019 Asian Shooting Championships in Doha, Qatar, she qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Bassil was Lebanon's flag bearer at the 2020 Olympics; she finished the wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Willeboordse
Elisabeth Willeboordse (born 14 September 1978 in Middelburg, Zeeland) is a female judoka from the Netherlands, who won the title in the women's –63 kg division at the 2005 European Championships. A year later, when Tampere, Finland hosted the event, she was defeated in the semi-finals by eventual gold medallist Sarah Clark from Great Britain, and had to be satisfied with the bronze medal in her weight division. In 2010, she regained her European title, defeating Edwige Gwend in the final. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal, beating Driulis González in her medal match. She also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She has won silver and bronze medals at world championship level. She won silver in 2009, losing to Yoshie Ueno is a Japanese judoka. She won the gold medal in the Half-middleweight (63 kg) division at the 2009 World Judo Championships and in 2010, in 2011 she lost the final to local hero Gévrise Émane. Her elder sis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judo At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 63 Kg
Women's 63 kg competition in judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, took place at ExCeL London. The gold and silver medals were determined by a single-elimination tournament, with the winner of the final taking gold and the loser receiving silver. Judo events awarded two bronze medals. Quarterfinal losers competed in a repechage match for the right to face a semifinal loser for a bronze medal (that is, the judokas defeated in quarterfinals A and B competed against each other, with the winner of that match facing the semifinal loser from the other half of the bracket). Schedule All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1) Results Finals Repechages Pool A Pool B Pool C Pool D References Bracket External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics - Women's 63 kg W63 The W63 was the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's entry into a brief competition between Livermore and Los Alamos to design a warhead for the Army's Lance tact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caren Chammas
Karen Chammas is a Lebanese judoka. Chammas competed at the Singapore 2010 Youth Games and was placed 7th worldwide, Continental Championships U20, and the 2012 Olympic Games where she tied for last place as she was defeated in the first round. Chammas is the first female judoka to ever participate for Lebanon in the Olympic Games. References External links * * * 1993 births Living people Lebanese female judoka Judoka at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka for Lebanon Lebanese American University alumni Judoka at the 2010 Asian Games Judoka at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Lebanon {{Lebanon-judo-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisa Di Francisca
Elisa Di Francisca (; born 13 December 1982) is an Italian former foil fencer, Olympic champion in 2012, World champion in 2010 and three-time European champion. She won the 2010–11 World Cup series and has seven World Cup victories to her name. With the Italian team, she was Olympic champion in 2012, five-time World champion and seven-time European champion. Biography Di Francisca was born in Jesi, a town of the province of Ancona in Marche, to a Sicilian father and a mother from Marche. She is the eldest of three children: her sister Martina was born in 1984 and her brother Michele in 1991. She first tried ballet, but found it too quiet to her taste. Along with her sister, she turned to fencing, the town's national sport: led by maestro Ezio Triccoli, Club Scherma Jesi produced Olympic champions Stefano Cerioni, Giovanna Trillini and Valentina Vezzali. Di Francesca immediately took to the sport and went on after her sister gave up, dragging her brother in her wake. In 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
