Hadia Hosny
Hadia Mohamed Hosny Elsaid Mohamed Tawfik El Said (born 30 July 1988) is an Egyptian badminton player playing in the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympics. She won the women's singles title at the 2010 African Championships, and emerged as the women's doubles gold medalist at the 2019 African Games. Personal life. She is currently working as a teaching assistant at the faculty of pharmacy of the British University in Egypt. She received a Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from Ain Shams University in 2010 and an MSc degree in Medical biosciences from the University of  Bath in 2012. Since 2015, she is attending as PhD student at the Pharmacology department of the Cairo University. Career. She started playing badminton in 2000. Her squash coach Tamer Raafet at school was in Egypt national badminton team, and she had just quit gymnastics for an injury the year before and it was hard to get back, then she decide to try badminton. In September 2013, it was reported that she was one of the 14 players selected for the Road to Rio Program, a program that aimed to help African badminton players to compete at the 2016 Olympic  Games. Hadia Started her own Hadia Hosny Badminton Academy (HHBA) in Heliopolis Sporting club and Black ball to train the future generation of athletes in badminton and help the spreading of the sport more. Achievements. African Games. "Women's singles" "Women's doubles" "Mixed doubles" African Championships. "Women's singles" "Women's doubles" "Mixed doubles" BWF International Challenge/Series (20 titles, 22 runners-up). "Women's singles" "Women's doubles" "Mixed doubles"