In a historic achievement, the Egyptian national men's team was able to win the 2021 Junior and Cadet Fencing World Championship which is taking place in Cairo. Egypt beat Russia in the final for the gold medal.
Russia took the silver and France the (...)
SHOTGUN RETURNS: The Shotgun World Cup was held for the first time in Cairo in 10 years as the Egyptian team of Ahmed Zaher, Abdel-Azizi Mehelba and Ahmed Kamar won the bronze medal.
For the first time in the history of the International Shooting (...)
In September last year at an elaborate but short ceremony hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Cairo and organised in conjunction with their Canadian counterparts, Hana Gouda was listed among the 10 most inspirational Egyptian women change-makers for (...)
The Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport played host on 13 and 14 February to the first Arab Women's Rugby Championship and the 7th Men's Arab Rugby Championship. Egyptian national teams took the gold medal and first place (...)
Egypt's Ahly are back at the FIFA Club World Cup after a seven-year absence. The Red Devils are aiming to go as far as they can in a tournament in which they have previously struggled to make an impact.
The team heads into the tournament with (...)
The 27th Men's Handball World Championship will be played without spectators because of the coronavirus. The decision was taken by the Supreme Organising Committee, and was requested by the International Handball Federation (IHF).
The committee is (...)
Egypt will open the 27th Men's Handball World Championship being held from 13-31 January with the participation of 32 teams, the most ever.
The teams will be competing in three venues in Cairo and one in Alexandria: Cairo Stadium Halls, the New (...)
A new Egyptian football league season begins, headed by defending champions Ahly who are odds-on favourites to repeat after bagging two other titles in a triumphant one-week span.
After winning the league title a whopping 18 points ahead of (...)
The African Football Association (CAF) has decided that the Total African Super Cup game between Morocco's Renaissance Berkane, the winners of the Confederation Cup, and Egypt's Ahly, the winner of the Champions League, will be played in Egypt on 10 (...)
In his weekly meeting with Minister of Youth and Sports Ashraf Sobhi, Hussein Labib, head of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of Egypt's 2021 Handball Men's World Championship highlighted the fact that Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi is (...)
Egypt's two biggest football clubs are close to reaching the final of the African Champions League thanks to two remarkable victories away from home in the semi-finals.
Ahly defeated Wydad Athletic Club 2-0 while Zamalek got by Raja Casablanca 1-0. (...)
Egyptian duo Nour Al-Sherbini and Ali Farag were named the 2020 CIB Egyptian Open winners and collected the PSA World Tour Platinum trophies after beating teammates Nouran Gohar and Tarek Mo'men in front of the iconic Great Pyramid of Giza, reports (...)
Egyptian squash was able to shine again after a six-month suspension due to the COVID-19 global pandemic which halted all major sports events around the world, including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Egyptian duo Hania Al-Hammami and Marawan Al-Shorbagi (...)
The Men's Handball World Championship, to be held in Egypt in January 2021, will be one of the first major sports events to be held during the Covid-19 pandemic.
It will also be the last time the championship is hosted by just one country and the (...)
Minister of Youth and Sports Ashraf Sobhi led an eight kilometre cycling marathon in the new Port Said tunnels. Governor of Port Said Adel Al-Ghadban, several ministerial officials and youths participated in the event.
The two tunnels, which were (...)
Putting aside their concerns over the coronavirus, Egyptians flocked en masse to street cafes to watch Sunday night's European Champions League final.
Bayern Munich's 1-0 win over Paris St Germain in Lisbon to claim the crown for the sixth time may (...)
An Egyptian judo player who refused to shake the hand of his Israeli opponent in the 2016 Olympic Games, has been cleared of taking drugs.
Islam Al-Shehabi was granted the ruling after the Court of Sport Arbitration (CAS) issued its decision to lift (...)
Tarek Momen, Egypt's star squash player who is ranked fourth in the world, has had an impressive recent run. Momen, 32, defeated New Zealand's Paul Coll in Doha in November last year in straight games. He also played a key part in the Egyptian men's (...)
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2021 Special Olympics Winter Games, which were due to take place in Sweden next January, were shifted to Kazan, Russia, in 2022.
Kazan was selected even though it came second after Sweden in the bid to host the (...)
Several meetings have been held between International Handball Federation (IHF) President Hassan Mustafa and Egyptian Minister of Youth and Sports Ashraf Sobhi to put the final touches to the 2021 Men's Handball World Cup.
The championship will be (...)
Farida Osman, Egypt's “golden fish”as she has been dubbed, was ecstatic after a story published on the official website of the Tokyo Olympics lauded her achievements and predicted a future of gold.
“When Farida Osman hits the water at next year's (...)
Ahmad Ahmad, head of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), stated recently that he was in touch with all African confederations amid the coronavirus crisis to determine if and when African sports activities which have been suspended over the (...)
To combat coronavirus and pay tribute to healthcare workers, Minister of Youth and Sports Ashraf Sobhi lit up Cairo Stadium last week under the motto “Save Lives, and Stay Home”. Sobhi switched on a light show of the gates and electronic boards to (...)
Swimmers Farida Osman and Ahmed Akram, and footballer Sara Essam are Egyptian athletes who were in a two-week coronavirus quarantine after they arrived from abroad.
Osman, 25, arrived in Marsa Alam Airport from Washington DC where she had to fly (...)
Egypt has been taking a host of preventive measures in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Last week the government reduced the number of hours sports clubs and youth centers could open, then closed them all together.
Initially, the (...)
