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Vinony's link graph records 140 inbound references to Ghada Shouaa, and connects out to 1995 World Championships in Athletics, Syrian Army and Hanna Kasyanova.
It is catalogued under topics including 1972 births, 20th-century Syrian people and 20th-century Syrian women.
Vinony links it to 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Syrian
- Born
- ( 1972-09-10 ) September 10, 1972 (age 53) , Mhardeh , Hama Governorate , Syria
- Height
- 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
- Weight
- 63 kg (139 lb)
- Country
- Syria
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event s
- Heptathlon , Long jump
- Club
- Al-Thawra SC, Jalaa SC
- Coached by
- Imad Sarraj
- Olympic finals
- 1996 – 1st
- World finals
- 1995 – 1st, 1999 – 3rd
- Highest world ranking
- Heptathlon: 1 (1995, 1996)
- Personal best
- Heptathlon: 6942 pts (9th all time) National record</span>"}]]}'>NR ( Götzis 1996)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Syria
- Place of birth
- Mharda
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- 1996 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Syria
- Mass
- 63
- Official website
- www.shouaa.com
- Height
- 187
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- date of birth
- 1972-09-10
- sports discipline competed in
- heptathlon
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Encyclopedic overview
Ghada Shouaa (Arabic: غادة شعاع; born September 10, 1972) is a retired Syrian heptathlete. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, she won her country's first and only Olympic gold medal. She was also a World and Asian heptathlon champion. She is considered one of the best Asian and Arab female athletes of all time. She was a Syrian flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
She has represented Syria in her two strongest multi-event disciplines, the individual high jump and long jump events. She holds the Syrian high jump records with 1.87 m outdoors (1996), in javelin with 54.82 m (1999) in 200 m with 23.78 (1996), in long jump with 6.77 (1996) and in shot put with 16.25 (1999).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ghada Shouaa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.