Hafez beat American world No. 10 Elizabeth Tartakovsky, 15-13, within the spherical of 32 earlier than falling to South Korea’s Jeon Hayoung, 15-7.
This is not Hafez’s first Olympics expertise, as she competed in sabre on the 2016 Summer season Video games in Rio and 2020 Summer season Video games (performed in 2021) in Tokyo. The 26-year-old Cairo native completed thirty sixth in 2016 and Twenty ninth three years in the past however received a silver medal in 2018 on the African Zonal Championship and two bronze in 2014 and 2019.
In accordance with the Worldwide Fencing Federation, Hafez entered the Paris occasion because the world’s Twenty ninth-ranked sabre and Egypt’s prime competitor.
Per the federation and reported by Li Cohen of CBS Information, Hafez is a earlier nationwide gymnastics champion and studied drugs at Cairo College.
