Hadir Mekhimar

Hadir Mekhimar (Arabic: هدير مخيمر‎; born November 22, 1997 in Cairo) is an Egyptian sport shooter.[1] She shared a top prize with Hungary's István Péni in the mixed international rifle team at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.[2]

Hadir Mekhimar
Personal information
Full nameHadir Mekhimar
Nationality Egypt
Born (1997-11-25) 25 November 1997
Cairo, Egypt
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)10 m air rifle (AR40)
Medal record
Women's shooting
Representing Mixed-NOCs
Summer Youth Olympics
2014 Nanjing Mixed team

Mekhimar made her first Olympic team for Egypt as a 16-year-old at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, where she earned a gold medal in shooting. In her first event, the girls' 10 m air rifle, Mekhimar fired a decent score of 399.6 to attain an eighteenth place from a field of twenty, missing out a chance to compete for the final. Two days later, Mekhimar had atoned from her premature air rifle elimination to help Hungarian colleague István Péni strike a 10–2 victory over the Latin American duo of Fernanda Russo (Argentina) and José Santos Valdés (Mexico) in the gold medal match of the mixed rifle team competition.[2][3]

References
  1. "ISSF Profile – Hadir Mekhimar". ISSF. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  2. Ceschi, Alessandro (22 August 2014). "Hungary and Egypt take first-ever Air Rifle mixed, last event of Nanjing". ISSF. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  3. Abdulleil, Reem (22 August 2014). "UAE shooter Tahlak gives new mixed event the thumbs up". Sport 360. Retrieved 6 December 2015.


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