Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz
Egyptian table tennis player (born 1981)
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Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz Muhammad (Arabic: شيماء عبد العزيز; born 30 March 1981 in Giza) is an Egyptian table tennis player.[3] She won a silver medal, along with her partner Moselhi Emad, in the mixed doubles at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria.[4] As of March 2013, Abdul-Aziz is ranked no. 566 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).[2] She is also right-handed, and uses the classic grip.[1]
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| Full name | Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz Muhammad | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Egypt | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 March 1981 Giza, Egypt | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Table tennis | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Al-Ahly Sports Club[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing style | Right-handed, classic[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 318 (May 2001)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 566 (March 2013)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Abdul-Aziz made her official debut, as a 19-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in both singles and doubles tournaments. For her first event, the women's singles, Abdul-Aziz placed third in the preliminary pool round against Russia's Galina Melnik and Hong Kong's Wong Ching, receiving a total score of 74 points, and two straight losses.[5] In the women's doubles, Abdul-Aziz and her partner Osman Bacent repeated their position in the preliminary pool round against Sweden's Åsa and Marie Svensson, and Belarus' Viktoria Pavlovich and Tatyana Kostromina, attaining only a total score of 45 points and losing four straight matches.[6]
Eight years after competing in her last Olympics, Abdul-Aziz qualified for her second Egyptian team, as a 27-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by receiving a place as one of the top 6 seeded players from the All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria.[7][8][9] She lost the preliminary round match of the women's singles tournament to Chinese Taipei's Pan Li-chun, with a unanimous set score of 0–4.[10]
