Afaf El-Hodhod

Afaf El-Hodhod (Arabic: عفاف هدهد‎; born October 1, 1996 in Cairo) is an Egyptian sport shooter.[1] She won a total of three medals, including two golds, in both air and sport pistol at the African Shooting Championships (2014 and 2015), and also attained a top five finish at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.[2]

Afaf El-Hodhod
Personal information
Full nameAfaf El-Hodhod
Nationality Egypt
Born (1996-10-01) 1 October 1996
Cairo, Egypt
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight54 kg (119 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)10 m air pistol (AP40)
25 m pistol (SP)

El-Hodhod made her first Olympic team for Egypt as a seventeen-year-old at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, where she competed in the girls' 10 m air pistol. Coming to the final with a third seed at 380 points, El-Hodhod commanded an early lead after thirteen shots, but then spoiled her previous good results with a 7.7 that saw her stumble down the medal position to fifth at 137.4.[3][4]

When Cairo hosted the 2015 African Championships on her senior debut, El-Hodhod managed to break an African record of 381 out of a possible 400 approaching to the final, and then beat Tunisia's 2012 Olympian Noura Nasri in a duel to defend her air pistol title with a score of 198.2; the first being previously done as a junior in 2014.[2][5]

References
  1. "ISSF Profile – Afaf El-Hodhod". ISSF. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  2. Morgan, Liam (5 December 2015). "Namibian and Egyptian shooters earn Rio 2016 quota places with victories at African Shooting Championships". Inside the Games. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  3. Ceschi, Alessandro (17 August 2014). "Last-minute 10.7 gives Nowak first gold of Nanjing". ISSF. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  4. "Nanjing 2014: Women's 10m Air Pistol Final Results". ISSF. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  5. "Egyptian female player qualified for Rio Olympic Games". Egypt State Information Service. 5 December 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2015.


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