HAMZA Mohamed

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Foil Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	7

World Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	38	11
2018	Wuxi, CHN	46	9

African Games

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Sale, MAR	3	1

African Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Bamako, MLI	2	1
2018	Tunis, TUN	7	1

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

Year	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019/2020	1 x 25th, 1 x 39th, 1 x 40th	1 x 6th, 1 x 9th, 1 x 12th
2018/2019	1 x 41st, 1 x 61st	1 x 8th, 1 x 10th, 2 x 12th
2017/2018	1 x 40th, 1 x 56th	-

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

Year	Foil Individual
2020/2021	1 x 43rd
2019/2020	1 x 41st
2018/2019	1 x 60th

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

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
6	2019/2020	Foil Team	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
8	2018/2019	Foil Team	World Cup	St. Petersburg, RUS
9	2019/2020	Foil Team	World Cup	Tokyo, JPN
10	2018/2019	Foil Team	World Cup	Paris, FRA
12	2019/2020	Foil Team	World Cup	Paris, FRA
12	2018/2019	Foil Team	World Cup	Tokyo, JPN
12	2018/2019	Foil Team	World Cup	Bonn, GER
14	2019/2020	Foil Team	World Cup	Bonn, GER
14	2018/2019	Foil Team	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
25	2019/2020	Foil Individual	World Cup	Cairo, EGY

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Torun, POL	3	-
2018	Verona, ITA	12	9
2017	Plovdiv, BUL	33	26

Young Pharaoh, Mo [his pre-school teacher called him Mo and it stuck since then]. (Athlete, 24 Jul 2021)

Football, squash, watching sport. (Athlete, 24 Jul 2021)

Student

Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering - Princeton University, United States of America

Arabic, English, French

Princeton University [United States of America]

Maher Hamza [national, father], EGY

Left (eurofencing.info, 2016)

Both of his parents competed in fencing at national level in Egypt. His father Maher Hamza has coached the Egypt national fencing team. (al-ain.com, 21 Jan 2020; Athlete, 30 Jul 2018; awty.org, 27 Jun 2016)

2015 for Egypt (Athlete, 30 Jul 2018)

He began fencing at age six at the Salle Mauro Fencing Academy in Houston, TX, United States of America. (Athlete, 24 Jul 2021)

"I tried a lot of other sports beforehand and found fencing to be the most unique and exciting, plus both my parents were national team fencers for Egypt." (Athlete, 24 Jul 2021)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (al-ain.com, 21 Jan 2020; Athlete, 30 Jul 2018)

Competing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and ending the 2018/19 season ranked number one in the world in junior men's foil. (Athlete, 24 Jul 2021)

Italian fencer Andrea Baldini. (Athlete, 24 Jul 2021)

His parents. (Athlete, 24 Jul 2021)

"What you invest into the sport is what you'll get out of it, so give it your all." (Athlete, 24 Jul 2021)

He was named Best Junior Athlete in Egypt for the 2019/20 season by the Egyptian Olympic Committee. (Facebook page, 30 Nov 2020)