Sara Ahmed (weightlifter)

Sara Ahmed

Personal information
Full name	Sara Samir Elsayed Mohamed Ahmed
Born	(1998-01-01) 1 January 1998 (age 26) Al-Huaniya, Ismailia Governorate, Egypt
Height	155 cm (5 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight	71.00 kg (157 lb)
Sport
Country	Egypt
Sport	Weightlifting
Event	–71 kg
Coached by	Khaled Korani[2]
Medal record Representing  Egypt Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 69 kg World Championships 2022 Bogotá –76 kg 2023 Riyadh –76 kg 2018 Ashgabat –71 kg Youth Olympics 2014 Nanjing 63 kg African Games 2015 Brazzaville 69 kg 2023 Accra 81 kg Arab Championships 2015 Sharm el-Shiekh 69 kg World Junior Championships 2015 Wrocław 69 kg 2018 Tashkent 69 kg World Youth Championships in Athletics 2015 Lima 63 kg 2013 Tashkent 63 kg Junior African Championships 2012 Tunis 63 kg Youth African Championships 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. She won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. 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.