Feryal Abdelaziz

Feryal Ashraf Abdelaziz is an Egyptian karateka, born in Cairo on 16 February 1999. ^{1 2} At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics she won the gold medal in the women's +61 kg kumite event, becoming the first Egyptian woman to win an Olympic gold medal. ¹

Abdelaziz took up karate at the age of seven in Cairo. She studied at the British University in Egypt, training to become a pharmacist; the Arabic article notes that she is her family's only daughter, with two brothers. ^{1 3}

She won bronze at the 2019 African Championships in Gaborone and silver in the women's kumite 68 kg at the 2019 African Games in Rabat, and in the same year took the world junior title in Santiago. ^{1 3} In June 2021 she qualified at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament in Paris for the Tokyo Olympics. ¹ In Tokyo she beat China's Gong Li 4-0, prevailed over Switzerland's Elena Quirici on senshu, lost to an Iranian opponent, and drew 0-0 with Algeria's Lamya Matoub to reach the semi-finals, where she beat Kazakhstan's Sofya Berultseva 5-4; in the final on 7 August she defeated Azerbaijan's Irina Zaretska 2-0 to win the gold medal. ¹ In November 2021 she won gold in the women's team kumite at the World Championships in Dubai, and in 2022 she won the women's 68 kg title at the Mediterranean Games in Oran, defeating Italy's Silvia Semeraro in the final. ¹

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