Egypt is taking part in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games with a whopping delegation of 134 athletes from 23 sports federations. This is the highest participation in the history of Egypt in the Olympic Games. 

The 23 sports include Modern Pentathlon, Swimming & Diving, table-tennis, Fencing, Tennis, Wrestling, Canoe, Gymnastics, Rowing, Sailing, Equestrian, Football, Handball, Archery, Boxing, Athletics, Judo, Taekwondo, Triathlon, Cycling, Karate, Badminton and Shooting. 

According to Sharif El-Erian, Secretary-General of the Egyptian Olympic Committee, Egypt has already received the accreditation cards of the delegation which resembles the visa entry of the delegation to Tokyo. 

El-Erian, also President of the Egyptian Modern Pentathlon Federation told the media that the NOC is aiming to accomplish medals during their participation in the 2020 Olympic Games, scheduled to be held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo.

"Egypt will be taking part at the Tokyo Olympic Games with a 250-man delegation, both officials and athletes, since we have been qualified in 23 sports," El-Erian said.

"We have some players who are really promising athletes and ranked among the top athletes in their sports, like Taekwondo, Karate, Modern Pentathlon, Wrestling, and Handball. Therefore, we have high hopes and expectations to achieve medals, but there are no guarantees; in sports, you always either win or lose. We’ll just do our best to achieve the best results," the Egyptian Olympic Committee Secretary-General said. 

On the other hand, the head of the NOC medical committee, Dr. Hassan Kamal declared some good news two weeks before traveling to the Olympics when the NOC received an official letter from the organizers informing them about the latest procedures regarding the Covid 19 precautions.

“The IOC has divided the nations into two categories, with each category having specific measures according to the medical, health and safety situation in each country. Many countries including England and the UAE will submit to strict measures. 

“On 8 July, the IOC informed the Egyptian NOC that Egypt is now considered a safe delegation after reviewing its medical precautions and will not join the restricted category. Accordingly, Egypt no longer needs to be isolated for three days after arriving in Tokyo. We only need to just submit negative PCR tests for the whole delegation which we will be done with immediately before traveling,” Dr. Kamal added.

The whole delegation—officials and athletes—have all been vaccinated before traveling to the Olympic Games.

On Tuesday 13 July, the NOC revealed and displayed the official sports outfits to be donned by the Egyptian delegation at the Olympic Games.

Egypt made its first Olympic participation at the Olympic Games in 1912. Since then, the Egyptians had appeared in 21 editions of the Olympic Games, where they managed to win 31 different medals. It took Egypt 56 years to return to the Olympics medals’ table, which was at the Athens 2004 Games.

Weightlifting has won the most Olympic medals for Egypt, a total of 11 medals: five gold, two silver, and four bronze medals. Unfortunately, this figure would remain as it is with the absence of the Egyptian weightlifting champions. The sport has been suspended a year ago after some junior players tested positive for steroids. Though Egypt had appealed the verdict, the International Weightlifting Federation retained its decision and prevented Egypt’s two powerhouses of the sport, Mohamed Ihab and Sara Samir, winners of the bronze medals in the last edition in Rio, from taking part in the Games, thus losing Egypt’s two guaranteed medals in the sport. 

Greco Wrestling won two medals: one gold in Athens 2004 and one silver in London 2012. In Tokyo, the stakes are high for Ibrahim Kisho in the men’s category and Samar Hamza in the women’s category.

Boxing has won four medals: one gold and three bronzes. Diving and judo, each won two medals: one silver and one bronze. Fencing received 2 silver medals: One won by Alaaeldin Abou El-kassem[PE1] . Taekwondo won 2 medals: One bronze in 2004 by Tamer Salah, and one bronze in 2016 by Hedaya Malak.

Facts & Figures

Medals for Egypt in the Olympics:

Sports: Egypt has won Olympic Medals in eight sports.

Games: Egypt has won Olympic medals in 11 Olympic Games.

Athletes: 28 Egyptian athletes have won Olympic medals.

Egyptian Medals in the Olympic Games

Gold: Egypt has won seven gold medals in the Olympics.

Silver: Egypt has won 11 silver medals in the Olympics.

Bronze: Egypt has won 15 silver medals in the Olympics.

The Egyptian Delegation at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games

The Egyptian Olympic Committee has announced the final list of the main and substitute athletes scheduled to take part at the Olympic Games, Tokyo 2020.

Modern Pentathlon

Ahmed Hamed, Ahmed El-Gendy, Amira Kandil, Haidy Adel

Swimming

Aly Khalafallah, Farida Osman, Youssef Ramadan, Marawan El-Kamash

Diving

Mohamed Mohaimen, Maha Abdel-Salam

Artistic Swimming

Hana Heikal, Laila Aly Mohamed, Jaida Tarek, Noura Seif El-din, Farida Sherif, Marian Mohamed, Omnia Ezzat, Shahd Samer

Table-tennis

Omar Asar, Khaled Asar, Ahmed Saleh, Dina Meshref, Yousra Helmy, Farag Abdel-Aziz

Fencing

Men’s Epee Team: Ziad El-Sisi, Mohab Yasser, Medhat Moetaz, Mohamed Amer

Women’s Foil Team: Yara El-Sharkawy, Nora Mohamed Mounir, Noha Hany, Mariam El-Zoheiry

Men’s Foil Team: Mohamed Hossam, Alaa El-Din Abu El-Kassem, Youssef Sana, Mohamed Maher Hama

Epee: Nada Hafez

Epee: Mohamed Wl-Sayed.

Tennis

Mayar Sherif, Mohamed Safwat

Wrestling

Mohamed Ibrahim Kisho, Samar Hamza, Amr Reda Husseun, Diaa El-Din Kamal, Enas Khorsheid, Haitham Mahmoud, Mohamed Metwaly, Abdel-Latif Manei

Kanoe & Kayak

Sama Ahmed, Moemen Mahran

Sailing

Kheloud Mansi, Aly Badawy

Gymnastics

Trampoline: Seif Sherif, Malak Hamza

Technical: Omar Mohamed, Mandy Essam, Zeina Ibrahim

Artistic: Tia Diaa, Salma Khaled, Malak Sherif, Logain Islam, Farida Ashraf, Paulina Amr, Habiba Marzouk, Jana Mohamed, Sara Halim

Rowing

Abdel-Khalek El-Banaa

Equestrian

Abdel-Kader Said, Nayel Nassar, Mohamed Taher Zeyada, Mohamed Tarek Mostafa, Sameh El-Dahan

Football

Mohamed El-Shennawy, Mahmoud Gad, Mohamed Sobhi, Ammar Hamdi, Karim Fouad, Ossama Galal, Mohamed Abdel-Salam, Ahmed Hegazy, Salah Mohsen, Nasser Maher, Ramadan Sobhi, Ibrahim Adel, Akram Tawfik, Karim El-Eraki, Ahmed Yasser Rayan, Emam Ashour, Ahmed Ramadan Beckham, Mahmoud Hamdi El-Wensh, Abdel-Rahman Magdy, Ahmed Abou El-Fetouh, Nasr Mansi

Handball

Karim Hendawy, Mohamed Essam Al-Tayar, Mohamed Aly, omar El-Wakil Bakkar, Ahmed Moemen Safa, Aly Zein, Yehia El-Dera, Hassan Walid Ladah, Ahmed Hisham El-Sayed ‘Dodo’, Ahmed Khairy, Seif El-Dera, Mohamed Sanad, Akram Yousri, Ahmed El-Ahmar, Yehia Khaled, Mohsen Ramadan, Mohamed Mamdouh Hashem, Ibrahim El-Masry, Wessam Nawar, Ahmed Adel

Taekwondo

Nour Hussein, Hedaya Malak, Seif Eissa, Abdel-Rahman Wael

Archery

Amal Adam, Youssef Tolba

Boxing

Abdel-Rahman Orabi, Yousri Rezkallah

Athletics

Bassant Hemeida, Ihab Abdel-Rahman, Mostafa El-Gamal, Mohamed Magdy, Mostafa Amr

Judo

Ramadan Darwish, Mohamed Abdel-Aal, Mohamed Abdel-Mawgood

Karate

Gianna Farouk, Feryal Ashraf, Radwa El-Sayed, Aly El-Sawy, Abdallah Mahmoud

Badminton

Hadia Hosny, Doha Hany, Adham Hatem El-Gamal

Triathlon

Basmala El-Salamony

Cycling

Ibtissam Zayed

Shooting

Azmy Mehelba, Mostafa Hamdy, Ahmed Zaher, Abdel-Aziz Mehelba, Youssef Magar, Ossama Mohamed, Samy Abdel-Fatah, Magy El-Ashmawy, El-Zahraa Mohamed, Radwa El-Sayed, Halal El-Gohary