The recently concluded 2021 modern pentathlon Youth World Championships revealed that Egypt's young athletes are ready to jump to the senior ranks.
The Under-19 and U-17 one-week event was held at the Arab Academy for Science Technology & Maritime (...)
Jordan won the 2021 Arab Women's Cup held in Cairo, beating Tunisia 1-0 in the final at the Arab Contractors Stadium on Monday night. The two teams had played to a goalless draw after 90 minutes when Egyptian referee Shahinda Al-Maghrabi added four (...)
Just as it was Egypt's largest delegation ever in an Olympic Games, so was its harvest of medals. The Egyptians had participated in the 17-day 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a country-record contingent of 134 athletes who competed in 23 sports. After it (...)
Egypt beat Germany 31-26 in the quarter-finals of 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the first time an Egyptian handball team has appeared in the semi-final, making this team's generation the most successful and Egypt a potential medal winner.
The half-time lead (...)
Entering day four of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Egypt's athletes were dropping out of contention at an alarming rate, causing much consternation among the public who set social media platforms afire with stinging rebukes.
But just 15 minutes apart, (...)
Egypt is sending to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics the largest contingent it has had in any Games - 134 athletes from 23 sports federations.
In the two-week-long tournament, which starts 23 July, Egypt will be participating in the modern pentathlon, (...)
The 2021 Junior Pentathlon World Championships will be held in Alexandria, Egypt, from 11 to 18 July for athletes under 21 years old. The one-week event will be held at the campus of the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime (...)
Ahmed Al-Gendi and Ahmed Ashraf have clinched two tickets to next month's Olympic Games. The Egyptian duo earned those spots at the World Pentathlon and Laser Run Championships which concluded in Cairo on Monday.
Al-Gendi took the bronze medal in (...)
Egypt's top female Greco-Roman wrestler Samar Hamza kept her winning streak alive by taking the gold medal at the Ivan Yargin Grand Prix, held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, in the women's seniors 76kg weight category. The 26-year-old skillfully beat (...)
Egyptians around the world gathered around TV sets to watch their favourite footballer, Mohamed Salah, as he played his last game in the Premier League on Sunday. They had wanted a victory for his club Liverpool against Crystal Palace that would (...)
For the first time, an Egyptian has won a gold medal at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup when Azmi Mehelba claimed the top medal at the skeet event.
The medal was also won at Mehelba's first World Cup in which he had a (...)
President of the Egyptian Football Association Ahmed Megahed said that the EFA intends to make an impressive showing during the participation of the Pharaohs in the FIFA Arab Cup, being held in Qatar in November and December 2021.
"The Egyptian team (...)
Ahly and Zamalek, Cairo's football archrivals, were at it again on Sunday, with the defending league champions Ahly winning 2-1 thanks to a brace by Mohamed Sherif.
The score is a repeat of the same result when they locked horns in the 2019-20 Total (...)
The event, held at the premises of Al-Ahram Establishment, in Heikal Hall, was attended by the establishment's Chairman of the Board Abdel-Mohsen Salama and editors-in-chief Alaa Thabet and Maged Mounir of the daily Al-Ahram and Al-Ahram Al-Mesai (...)
The reigning African champions Ahly were scheduled to open their African Champions League campaign on Tuesday by facing Sudan's Merrikh in the first match of the group stages of the continent's most prestigious club football competition. Simba of (...)
Denmark was crowned champions of the Egypt 2021 Men's Handball World Championship for the second year in a row.
It was painful for Egyptians and their national team to watch the Danes as they received their trophy and gold medals from Egyptian Prime (...)
The 32-nation 27th Men's Handball World Championship, being held in Egypt from 13 to 31 January, entered its second round, the main draw, with no major upsets.
The preliminary round concluded on Tuesday with the top three teams in each of the eight (...)
In front of an impressive spectator turnout, the Egyptian Eagles Athletic Club celebrated winning the African Flag Ladies Cup (AFLC) held in collaboration with the Cairo Bears.
Four teams took part in the African tournament including two Egyptian (...)
The decade started badly for Egyptian sports. The January 2011 uprising that upended the presidency of Hosni Mubarak led to serious political and security instability. Accordingly, sports activities were suspended throughout most of that year and (...)
Egypt's former world No 1 squash player Karim Darwish is one of two vice presidents who have been elected in the World Squash Federation (WSF).
The world champion in 2009, Darwish is also squash director at the Wadi Degla Club. Long a promoter of (...)
In one month, Zamalek Club's combative President Mortada Mansour lost his two most precious positions: his seat as a member of parliament and the presidency of Zamalek. He lost the first in elections and earlier this week Zamalek's board was (...)
The modern pentathlon scooped up the most awards at the annual “THE BEST” event in Egyptian sport for the 2019-2020 season.
Hosted by the Egyptian National Olympic Committee (ENOC), the occasion was attended by Egypt's top sports officials on Sunday (...)
Having taken part in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games while on the Egyptian taekwondo team, Abeer Essawi officially became an “Olympian”, thus winning a seat on the executive board of the World Olympians Association (WOA), writes Inas Mazhar.
According (...)
Having taken part in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games while on the Egyptian taekwondo team, Abeer Essawi officially became an “Olympian”, thus winning a seat on the executive board of the World Olympians Association (WOA), writes Inas Mazhar.
According (...)
Zamalek of Egypt were forced to put on ice a possible trip to the final of the African Champions League after eight people on the opposing Moroccan team Raja Casablanca tested positive for the coronavirus. The infections followed the first-leg match (...)
