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.