ELSISSY Ziad

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	Sabre Individual
2010	Singapore, SIN	9

World Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	72	15
2015	Moscow, RUS	55	17
2014	Kazan, RUS	41	21
2013	Budapest, HUN	74	17

African Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2019	Bamako, MLI	6	1
2017	Alexandria, EGY	3	2

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2020/2021	1 x 12th	1 x 13th
2019/2020	1 x 14th, 1 x 32nd, 1 x 59th	1 x 11th, 1 x 12th, 1 x 14th
2018/2019	-	2 x 14th, 1 x 15th, 1 x 17th

Grand Prix overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Sabre Individual
2019/2020	1 x 25th
2018/2019	1 x 54th, 1 x 59th
2017/2018	1 x 39th
2016/2017	1 x 50th

World Cup & Grand Prix - Ten best performances since 2016/2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
11	2019/2020	Sabre Team	World Cup	Luxembourg, LUX
12	2020/2021	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Budapest, HUN
12	2019/2020	Sabre Team	World Cup	Warsaw, POL
13	2020/2021	Sabre Team	World Cup	Budapest, HUN
14	2019/2020	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Warsaw, POL
14	2019/2020	Sabre Team	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
14	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Padua, ITA
14	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Algiers, ALG
15	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Budapest, HUN
17	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Warsaw, POL

Watching diving, basketball, volleyball, squash. (Body Koora YouTube channel, 23 Jun 2020)

Athlete, Engineer

Mechanical Engineering - Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

Partner Nouran Ahmed Gohar

Arabic, English

Alexandria Sporting Club [Egypt]

Right (FIE, 2014)

His father played basketball for the Egyptian national team. His partner Nouran Ahmed Gohar has represented Egypt in squash. (SportsDeskOnline, 25 May 2021; youm7.com, 05 Dec 2020; Body Koora YouTube channel, 23 Jun 2020; wsuathletics.com, 10 Jun 2017)

He took up the sport in Alexandria, Egypt (Body Koora YouTube channel, 23 Jun 2020)

"I took up basketball first because my family was involved in the sport, but my mother suggested I get involved in an individual sport like fencing." (Body Koora YouTube channel, 23 Jun 2020)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 20 Jun 2017)

Egyptian fencer Alaaeldin Abouelkassem, US basketball player Michael Jordan. (Body Koora YouTube channel, 23 Jun 2020)

"Dream, and believe in your dream, but make sure you train well and take it step by step. As long as you do what you need to do, things will happen. Believe that you can do it and you will do it." (Body Koora YouTube channel, 23 Jun 2020)

In 2015 he received First Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference honours, and Second Team All-American honours while studying at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, United States of America. (wayne.edu, 16 Jun 2015)

In 2013 and 2014 he was named in the Athletic Director's Honour Roll at Wayne State University. (wsuathletics.com, 2015)