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Medals in Current Games
Rank	Men				Women				Mixed				Open				Total				Total Rank
Rank				Total				Total				Total				Total				Total	Total Rank
54	0	1	2	3	1	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	6	39

General Interest

Highlights:

Four years ago in Rio de Janeiro, Egypt won three bronze medals, continuing a streak of four games in which the NOC has won multiple medals.

Weightlifters Sara Ahmed and Mohamed Mahmoud finished third in the women's 69kg and the men's 77kg, respectively, and Hedaya Malak Wahba claimed the other bronze in the women's taekwondo featherweight class.

Egypt's first Olympic medals were won at the 1928 Games. At that Games in Amsterdam, Greco-Roman wrestler Ibrahim Moustafa and weightlifter Sayed Nosseir each grabbed one gold, beginning a tradition that has seen all of the NOC's gold won in either Greco-Roman wrestling or weightlifting.

Also at the 1928 Games, diver Farid Simaika won two medals, a bronze and silver, and remains the only Egyptian to win an Olympic medal in an aquatics discipline.

After missing the 1932 Games, Egypt returned to win five medals in 1936 and another five in 1948, two gold at each. Over the two Games, two of the NOC's most successful, eight of the ten podium visits were by weightlifters, including two by Ibrahim Shams and one by Khadr Sayed El Thouni.

El Thouni's 1936 gold, won in the 75kg division, remains one of the most spectacular performances ever seen in the sport. His total, a world record at the time, was 35kg heavier than the silver medallist in his division and 15kg heavier than the gold medallist in the division above.

Shams is still one of only four Egyptians to win more than one medal. Greco-Roman wrestler Karam Gaber took one gold in 2004 and silver in 2012 but was later banned from the sport for doping violations, Simaika won two diving gold and weightlifter Khalil Abir Abdelrahman won bronze and silver in 2008 and 2012, respectively.

Egypt plays a role in one of the more obscure pieces of Olympic trivia as it was in Alexandria, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, that the five-ringed Olympic flag was first flown - at the 1914 Pan-Egyptian Games.