Lina Ahmed

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Lina Ahmed athletics
Full name Lina Amer Jaber Ahmed
nation EgyptEgypt Egypt
birthday 11th March 1997 (age 23)
Career
discipline 100 meter hurdles
Best performance 13.64 s Sport records icon NR.svg
status active
Medal table
U20 African Championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
U18 African Championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior African Championships
silver Addis Ababa 2015 100 m hurdles
Youth African Championships
gold Warri 2013 100 m hurdles
last change: September 17th, 2019

Lina Amer Jaber Ahmed (also Linha Ahmed , Arabic لينا أحمد, DMG Līnā Aḥmad ; * March 11, 1997 ) is an Egyptian hurdler who specializes in the 100 meter hurdles .

Athletic career

Lina Ahmed gained her first international experience in 2013 at the African Youth Championships in Warri , where she won the gold medal in 14.04 s, as well as at the subsequent Arab Youth Championships in Cairo , where she took 13.97 s. So she qualified for the Youth World Championships in Donetsk , where she was eliminated with 13.91 s in the semifinals. The following year she won the Arab Junior Championships in Cairo in 14.15 s and retired from the Junior World Championships in Eugene with 14.29 s in the lead. In 2015 she won the silver medal in the hurdles sprint at the Junior African Championships in Addis Ababa in 14.48 s and finished fourth in the Egyptian 4 x 100 meter relay in 48.32 s. In 2016 she won the U23 Mediterranean Championships in Tunis in 13.89 s and reached seventh place in the African Championships in Durban in 13.81 s. She then reached the semi-finals at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz , where she was eliminated with 13.68 s. In 2017 she took part in the World Championships in London thanks to a wildcard , where she was eliminated in the first round with 13.78 seconds .

In 2018 she finished sixth at the U23 Mediterranean Championships in Jesolo in 13.63 s and at the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona she was eliminated with 14.20 s in the lead. The following year she finished sixth over 60 m hurdles at the U23 Mediterranean Indoor Championships in Miramas in 8.59 s. In August she took part in the Africa Games in Rabat for the first time and was eliminated there with 13.97 s in the preliminary round.

Personal bests

  • 100 m hurdles: 13.64 s (+1.3 m / s), July 22, 2016 in Bydgoszcz ( Egyptian record )
    • 60 m hurdles (hall): 8.57 s, January 19, 2019 in Miramas ( Egyptian record )

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