MESHREF Dina

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Singles	Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1R	1R
2012	London, GBR	2R	1R

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	Singles	Team X
2010	Singapore, SIN	Second Stage	Last 16

World Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles W	Doubles X	Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	2R	3R	1R	-
2018	Halmstad, SWE	-	-	-	20
2017	Dusseldorf, GER	1R	2R	3R	-
2016	Kuala Lumpur, MAS	-	-	-	29
2015	Suzhou, CHN	1R	1R	1R	-
2014	Tokyo, JPN	-	-	-	33
2013	Paris, FRA	2R	1R	2R	-
2012	Dortmund, GER	-	-	-	39
2011	Rotterdam, NED	-	-	2R	-
2010	Moscow, RUS	-	-	-	38
2008	Guangzhou, CHN	-	-	-	44

World Cup

Year	Location	Singles
2020	Weihai, CHN	Group Stage
2019	Chengdu, CHN	Last 16
2018	Chengdu, CHN	Group Stage
2017	Markham, ON, CAN	Last 16
2016	Philadelphia, PA, USA	Last 16

African Games

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles W	Doubles X	Team
2019	Rabat, MAR	1	3	1	1

African Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles W	Doubles X	Team
2018	Port Louis, MRI	1	2	1	1
2016	Agadir, MAR	2	1	1	1

WTT Star Contender

Year	Location	Singles
2021	Doha, QAT	2R

ITTF World Tour - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32	L64
2020	Doubles W	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-
2018	Singles	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-
2018	Doubles W	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-
2017	Doubles W	-	-	-	-	2x	-	-

ITTF World Tour - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
Last 16	2020	Doubles	Hungarian Open	Budapest, HUN
Last 16	2018	Doubles	Hungarian Open	Budapest, HUN
Last 16	2017	Doubles	Swedish Open	Stockholm, SWE
Last 16	2017	Doubles	Austrian Open	Linz, AUT
1/16 Final	2018	Singles	Hungarian Open	Budapest, HUN

Legend
W - Winner, RU - Runner-up, SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 4R - 4th Round, 3R - 3rd Round, 2R - 2nd Round, 1R - 1st Round, Prel. Rnd - Preliminary Round, L16 - Last 16, L32 - Last 32, L64 - Last 64, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed

Dandoun, Dandous (ITTF, 27 Jul 2012; Facebook profile, 15 Mar 2016)

Reading, playing the organ. (Athlete, 24 Mar 2020)

Athlete

Business Administration - American University in Cairo, Egypt

Arabic, English

Metz Tennis de Table [France]

Loic Belguise [club]; Ashraf Helmy [national], EGY; Maged Ashour [national], EGY; Zhang Chaoling [personal]

Her cousin Yousra Helmy represented Egypt in table tennis at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Her brother Ahmed, father Alaa and mother Shereen El-Alfy have all competed in table tennis at national level in Egypt. Her father has also served as vice president of the Egyptian Table Tennis Federation. (youm7.com, 01 Sep 2019; elfagr.com, 30 Aug 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 03 Mar 2020)

2008 for Egypt, World Championships in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China (ittfafrica.com, 03 Jun 2015)

She suffered from shoulder tendonitis in 2021. (Athlete, 31 May 2021)

2008 (ittfafrica.com, 03 Jun 2015)

She took up the sport at age seven at Al-Ahly in Cairo, Egypt. (dinaalaameshref.com, 01 Sep 2019; ittfafrica.com, 03 Jun 2015)

She first took up tennis before finding table tennis to be more interesting. "I used to go visit the table tennis hall at my club Al-Ahly with my father since he was the table tennis manager. One day when I was eight, one of the coaches [Mosaad Rohayem] told me, 'Why don't you try playing some table tennis?' It was then when I started my table tennis journey." (auccaravan.com, 01 Dec 2012; ittfafrica.com, 03 Jun 2015)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Athlete, 31 May 2021; ittf.com, 14 Oct 2019)

Winning gold in singles at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain. (Athlete, 24 Mar 2020)

Egyptian taekwondo athlete Hedaya Malak Wahba. (Athlete, 24 Mar 2020)

Her parents, and her aunt Shahira El-Alfy. (ittfafrica.com, 03 Jun 2015)

"Before any major match, I eat a banana or dates and drink apple or orange juice." (ittfafrica.com, 03 Jun 2015)

"Do your best and God will do the rest." (Athlete, 24 Mar 2020)