Hadir Mekhimar
Hadir Mekhimar (Arabic: هدير مخيمر; born November 22, 1997 in Cairo) is an Egyptian sport shooter.[1] She shared a top prize with Hungary's István Péni in the mixed international rifle team at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.[2]
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| Full name | Hadir Mekhimar | |||||||||||||
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| Born | 25 November 1997 Cairo, Egypt | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||
| Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 10 m air rifle (AR40) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mekhimar made her first Olympic team for Egypt as a 16-year-old at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, where she earned a gold medal in shooting. In her first event, the girls' 10 m air rifle, Mekhimar fired a decent score of 399.6 to attain an eighteenth place from a field of twenty, missing out a chance to compete for the final. Two days later, Mekhimar had atoned from her premature air rifle elimination to help Hungarian colleague István Péni strike a 10–2 victory over the Latin American duo of Fernanda Russo (Argentina) and José Santos Valdés (Mexico) in the gold medal match of the mixed rifle team competition.[2][3]
References
- "ISSF Profile – Hadir Mekhimar". ISSF. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
- Ceschi, Alessandro (22 August 2014). "Hungary and Egypt take first-ever Air Rifle mixed, last event of Nanjing". ISSF. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- Abdulleil, Reem (22 August 2014). "UAE shooter Tahlak gives new mixed event the thumbs up". Sport 360. Retrieved 6 December 2015.