Egypt at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
| Egypt at the 2004 Summer Paralympics |
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| IPC code | EGY | ||||||||
| NPC | Egyptian Paralympic Committee | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 46 | ||||||||
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Medals Ranked 23rd |
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Egypt competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. The team included 46 athletes, 36 men and 10 women.
The Egyptian team included 46 sportspeople, 10 women and 36 men. This was 2 fewer women than the country had sent to Sydney for the 2000 Games. Three members of the delegation, including two athletes, participated in a study about dental health during the Games.
Competitors from Egypt won 23 medals, including 6 gold, 9 silver and 8 bronze to finish 23rd in the medal table.
Fatma Omar made her second Paralympic Games appearance in Athens, winning her second gold medal in powerlifting at the Games. This time, she competed in a heavier weight class, -56kg.Metwalli Mathana appeared in his third Paralympic Games.Osama Elserngawy won gold in the Men's 52kg event.Metwaly Ibrahim Mathana set a Paralympic record at the 2004 Games with a lift of 202.5 kg in the 60 kg class. This was more than the world record for the standing class, which at the time was 190 kg.
Egypt finished the Athens Games with 5 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze medals in powerlifting.
Egyptian broadcasting rights for the 2004 Games were acquired before the start of the Games.
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