Sara Ahmed (weightlifter)

Sara Ahmed
Personal information
Full nameSara Samir Elsayed Mohamed Ahmed
Born (1998-01-01) 1 January 1998 (age 26)
Al-Huaniya, Ismailia Governorate, Egypt
Height155 cm (5 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight71.00 kg (157 lb)
Sport
CountryEgypt
SportWeightlifting
Event–71 kg
Coached byKhaled Korani[2]
Medal record
Representing  Egypt
Women's weightlifting
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris 81 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 69 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Bogotá –76 kg
Gold medal – first place 2023 Riyadh –76 kg
Silver medal – second place 2018 Ashgabat –71 kg
Youth Olympics
Gold medal – first place 2014 Nanjing 63 kg
African Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Brazzaville 69 kg
Gold medal – first place 2023 Accra 81 kg
African Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Cairo 76 kg
Gold medal – first place 2022 Cairo 81 kg
Gold medal – first place 2023 Tunis 81 kg
Gold medal – first place 2024 Ismailia 81 kg
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Wrocław 69 kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Tashkent 69 kg
World Youth Championships in Athletics
Gold medal – first place 2015 Lima 63 kg
Gold medal – first place 2013 Tashkent 63 kg
Junior African Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Tunis 63 kg
Youth African Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Tunis 63 kg

Sara Samir Elsayed Mohamed Ahmed (Arabic: سارة سمير السيد محمد أحمد; born 1 January 1998) is an Egyptian weightlifter who won a bronze medal in the women's 69 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the silver medal in the women's 81kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships.

Originally from the Ismailia Governorate, Ahmed was encouraged to take part in weightlifting by her family and was competing internationally by 2012. At the senior level, she has earned gold medals at the Mediterranean and African Games, as well as the Arab Championships. In Rio de Janeiro, she became the first Arab woman to receive an Olympic weightlifting medal and the first Egyptian woman to receive an Olympic medal on the podium in any discipline.

  1. ^ "Sara Ahmed". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 11 December 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Sara Ahmed". nbcolympics.com. NBC Sports. Archived from the original on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.