Ahmed won gold in both portions of the 69 kg division at the 2018 Mediterranean Games. The following month, at the 2018 Junior World Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, she won all three categories of the 69 kg tournament. At the senior edition that year, she was third in the snatch and second in the clean and jerk, which placed her second overall in the 71 kg division. She is engaged to another Egyptian Olympic weightlifter, Ragab Abdelhay.