Paris 2024 Day 5 summary: Assar advances to quarterfinals, Egypt handball team held by France

Ahram Online provides a summary of how Egyptian athletes fare on Wednesday.

Ahram Online , Wednesday 31 Jul 2024,

Omar Assar
Egypt's Omar Assar plays a return to Kazakhstan's Kirill Gerassimenko during their men's table tennis singles round of 16 at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the South Paris Arena in Paris on July 31, 2024. AFP

 

21:34 Egypt handball team have been held by France 26-26. Egypt will play Norway on Friday.

18:35 Egypt's Men's Sabre Team suffered a tough 45-38 defeat against Italy in the placement 5-6 match, securing a sixth-place finish in the competition. This outcome marks the end of the tournament for the Egyptian Sabre fencers, who were unable to clinch a podium finish despite their best efforts.

17:41 Egyptian boxer Omar Elsayed Elawady fails to advance in the Men’s 71 kg event after losing to Uzbekistan’s Asadkhuja Muydinkjujaev 5-0 in the round of 16. 

17:00 Egypt's table tennis star Omar Assar has advanced to the quarterfinals after a hard-fought 4-2 (8-11, 6-11, 12-10, 12-10, 11-9, 11-3) victory over Kazakhstan's Kirill Gerassimenko in the Round of 16. 

16: 42 Egyptian archer Jana Ali was eliminated from the women's Individual Archery event at the 2024 Paris Olympics after losing 1-7 to South Korea's Suhyeon Nam in the round of 32.

16:35 Egypt’s Men's Sabre Team secured a thrilling 45-41 victory over Canada. The team will now face Italy in the classification match to determine the fifth and sixth place finishers.

15:25 Egypt's Men's Sabre Team suffered a 45-41 defeat to France, ending their medal hopes. They will now compete against Canada at 16:00 Cairo time to determine their final ranking between fifth and eighth place.

13:45 Egypt's Dina Meshref was eliminated from the Table Tennis Women's Singles competition in the Round of 32. She lost to Japan's Hina Hayata, ranked number three in the world, by a score of 4-0 (15-13, 12-10, 11-3, 11-9).

13:30 Egypt's Maggy Ashmawy finished 27th in the qualifying round for the Women's Trap event. She scored a total of 110 points but was eliminated from the competition as only the top six shooters moved on to the final.

11:30 Egypt's Ibrahim Korayiem finished 41st in the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men's Qualifying round with a score of 576-17x. Korayiem fails to qualify for the next phase as only the top 8 reach the final.

11:00 Egypt's Abdel-Khalek El-Banna secured his place in the final D of the Men's Single Sculls event after finishing fourth in the semi-final C/D with a time of 7:02.76.

10:40 Egypt's lightweight rowing team finished fourth in their final race. They rowed as fast as they could, finishing in 6 minutes and 37.92 seconds.

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