Nahla Ramadan

Nahla Ramadan
Personal information
Surname:	Nahla Ramadan نهلة رمضان
Nationality:	Egypt
Date of birth:	April 4th 1985
Place of birth:	Alexandria
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 1 × Africa Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×

Nahla Ramadan ( Arabic نهلة رمضان) (Born April 4, 1985 in Alexandria , Al-Iskandariyya ) is an Egyptian weightlifter .

Career

Nahla Ramadan was born in Alexandria. Her father Mohamed was an active weightlifter and Egyptian champion himself. Later he was a coach in Alexandria. Nahla's older sister, Nagham, was also a weightlifter. Nahla also started lifting weights at a young age. There were initial successes in the youth and junior sector. She was then accepted into the Egyptian national team, which was trained by the Bulgarian coach Jordan Ivanov . At the Ras Al-Bar training center , she grew up with hard training to become a world-class athlete. She increased her performance in a duel by over 50 kg within a year and won medals at the 2002 and 2003 World Championships. She had bad luck at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where she wanted too much and was eliminated with three invalid attempts in jerking .

At the 2012 Olympics in London, she reached fifth place in the super heavyweight division. In 2013, however, she tested positive for metandienone during a training check and was banned for two years.

Nahla Ramadan is a student at the Cleopatra Experimental School in Alexandria.

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, AS = African Games, KG = body weight)

• 2001, 6th place , Junior World Championships in Thessaloniki , up to 63 kg body weight, with 185 kg, winner: Natalja Skakun, Ukraine , 232.5 kg;
• 2002, 3rd place , World Championships in Warsaw , up to 69 kg body weight, with 245 kg, behind Pawina Thongsuk , Thailand , 260 kg and Walentina Popowa , Russia , 257.5 kg;
• 2003, 2nd place , World Championships in Vancouver , up to 75 kg body weight, with 262.5 kg, behind Shang Shichun, China , 272.5 kg and in front of Slaweika Rusinska, Bulgaria , 252.5 kg;
• 2004, 1st place , Junior World Championships in Minsk , up to 75 kg body weight, with 260 kg, ahead of Swetlana Podobedowa , Russia, 257.5 kg and Yu Honglian, China, 227.5 kg;
• 2004, unplaced , OS in Athens , up to 75 kg body weight, 3 failed attempts in pushing;
• 2005, 5th place , World Championships in Doha , up to 75 kg body weight, with 259 kg, winner: Liu Chunhong , China, 285 kg, ahead of Natalja Zabolotnaja , Russia, 285 kg
• 2007, 1st place , AS in Algiers , over 75 kg body weight, with 268 kg

Medals individual disciplines

• World Cup silver medals: 2003, snatch, 117.5 kg - 2003, push, 145 kg
• World Championship bronze medals: 2002, snatch, 110 kg - 2002, push, 135 kg

Web links

• Nahla Ramadan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sanctioned Athletes iwf.net 2013