Sara Ahmed (weightlifter)

Sara Ahmed
Personal information
Full nameSara Samir Elsayed Mohamed Ahmed
Born (1998-01-01) 1 January 1998
Al-Huaniya, Ismailia Governorate, Egypt
Height155 cm (5 ft 1 in)
Weight71.00 kg (157 lb)
Sport
CountryEgypt
SportWeightlifting
Event
–71 kg
Coached byKhaled Korani
Medal record
Representing  Egypt
Women's weightlifting
Olympic Games
2024 Paris 81 kg
2016 Rio de Janeiro 69 kg
World Championships
2022 Bogotá –76 kg
2023 Riyadh –76 kg
2018 Ashgabat –71 kg
2024 Manama –81 kg
2025 Førde –77 kg
African Championships
2019 Cairo 76 kg
2022 Cairo 81 kg
2023 Tunis 81 kg
2024 Ismailia 81 kg
African Games
2015 Brazzaville 69 kg
2023 Accra 81 kg
Islamic Solidarity Games
2025 Riyadh 77 kg T
2025 Riyadh 77 kg C
2025 Riyadh 77 kg S
World Junior Championships
2015 Wrocław 69 kg
2018 Tashkent 69 kg
Junior African Championships
2012 Tunis 63 kg
Youth Olympics
2014 Nanjing 63 kg
World Youth Championships
2015 Lima 63 kg
2013 Tashkent 63 kg
Youth African Championships
2012 Tunis 63 kg

Sara Ahmed (Arabic: سارة سمير السيد محمد أحمد; born 1 January 1998) is an Egyptian weightlifter who won a bronze medal in the women's 69 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the silver medal in the women's 81kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships.

Originally from the Ismailia Governorate, Ahmed was encouraged to take part in weightlifting by her family and was competing internationally by 2012. At the senior level, she has earned gold medals at the Mediterranean and African Games, as well as the Arab Championships. In Rio de Janeiro, she became the first Arab woman to win an Olympic weightlifting medal and the first Egyptian woman to receive an Olympic medal on the podium in any discipline.