Hedaya Malak & Seif Eissa grab the first two medals for Egypt in 2020 Tokyo Olympics

CAIRO, 26 July 2021: Egypt won the first two medals in the Tokyo Olympics 2020 through the sport of taekwondo from Seif Eissa and Hedaya Malak.

Hedaya Malak defeated Peggy McPherson of America in the under 67 kg category.

Hedaya beat the American player 17-6, after turning her last-round 5-3 delay over to McPherson.

Hedaya Malak won the second bronze medal in her Olympic history after winning at Rio 2016.

Hedaya became the first Arab woman to win two consecutive Olympic medals in Taekwondo, a great achievement for the Egyptian champion.

Hedaya also became the first to raise the flag of Egypt at the opening ceremony and win a medal in the same Olympic Games.

As for Saif Eissa, he beat Norway's Andre Ordemann 12-4 to win his first Olympic medal in history.

The Egyptian duo raised the balance of taekwondo to 4 medals in the history of the Olympics, as the third most equal sport with boxing, after weightlifting and wrestling.

Egypt raised its tally to 34 medals with 7 gold, 10 silver and 17 bronze medals in the history of Olympic participation.

Thus, this is the eighth time that Egypt has achieved two or more medals from the same game in the same Olympic Games.

It was as follows:

2 in a dive (Amsterdam 1928)

5 in weightlifting (Berlin 36)

3 in weightlifting (London 48)

2 in wrestling (London 48)

2 in boxing (Athens 2004)

2 in weightlifting (London 2012)

2 in weightlifting (Rio 2016)

2 in taekwondo (Tokyo 2020)