Paris 2024 Day 4 summary: El-Banna advances to rowing semis C/D, Egypt finishes Eighth in Women's Epee

Ahram Online provides a summary of how Egyptian athletes fare on Tuesday

Ahram Online , Tuesday 30 Jul 2024,

Azerbaijan's Murad Allahverdiyev (in red) punches Egypt's Abdelrahman Abdelgawwad in the men
Azerbaijan's Murad Allahverdiyev (in red) punches Egypt's Abdelrahman Abdelgawwad in the men's 80kg preliminaries round of 16 boxing match during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the North Paris Arena, in Villepinte on July 30, 2024. AFP

 

18:47 Egypt's Women's Épée Team suffered a tough 44-30 defeat against the USA in the Placement 7-8 match, securing an eighth-place finish in the competition. This outcome marks a challenging end to the tournament for the Egyptian fencers.

18:03 Egypt football team beat Spain 2-1 to secure Group C top spot. Ibrahim Adel scored twice for Egypt and Samu Omorodion scored Spain’s consolation goal. The young Pharaohs will now face runners-up of Group D in the quarter-finals.

17:55 Egypt's Abdelrahman Abdelgawwad was knocked out of the boxing competition. He lost his match against Murad Allahverdiev from Azerbaijan by a score of 0-5 in the round of 16. This means he won't be moving on to the next round.

16:51 The Egyptian fencing team suffered a defeat of 45-31 against Ukraine in the classification round of the women’s Epee event. They are now poised to compete against the USA for the 7th to 8th place ranking.

15:50 Shooter Maggy Ashmawy finished the first day of Trap qualification with 66 points. She will resume qualification on Wednesday.

15:25 Egypt fencing team failed to advance to the semifinals of the Women’s Epee event after losing 39-26 to Italy. Aya Hussein, Nardin Ehab, and Shirwit Gaber are set to compete against the Ukrainian team in the classification round from 5th to 8th place on Tuesday at 16:00.

12:43 Egypt beach volleyball team suffered a 2-0 defeat against Italy in their second game of the competition. Doaa El-Ghobashi and Marwa Magdy lost 21-16 and 21-10. They will play Spain on Thursday.

11:49 Egyptian rower Abdel-Khalek El-Banna qualified for the men's single sculls semifinals despite finishing sixth in the quarterfinals timing 7:18.59m. He completed the first 500m in 1:42.63, the 1000m in 3:32.27m, the 1500m in 5:24.20m and finally the 2000m contest in 7:05.06m behind leader Giedrius Bieliauskas of Lithuania who timed 6:49.27m. El-Banna will compete in the semis on Wednesday 31 July 2024.

11:18 Egypt's volleyball team suffered their second defeat in the Paris Olympic 2024 after losing 3-0 to Italy in Group B of the preliminary round. They are scheduled to face Brazil on Friday.

11:10 Egypt Judoka Abdelrahman Mohamed Abdelghany crashed out of the Men’s 81 kg competition after losing 1-0 to his French counterpart Alpha Djalo.

 

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