Syrian star Ghada Shouaa imposed her strong presence in the 1996 Atlanta Games, after the 27-year-old succeeded in becoming a “Syrian story” immortalized by Arab women’s sports, by winning the gold medal in the “heptathlon” competition in the “mother of games,” giving Syria its first gold medal and the second medal in history in the Olympic Games after wrestler George Attia’s silver in the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
Shaaa won the gold medal in Atlanta, after scoring 6,780 points, a large margin over her runner-up, Belarusian Natasha Sazanovich (6,563 points), and British Denise Lewis (6,489 points).
The rising performance of Shuaa came after she managed to record a personal record of 6943 points in the heptathlon competitions at the Austrian international “Gotzsch” meeting in May 1995, winning the world championship, and recording the best world record in the last five years of that period, through which she revealed her strong chances of being a difficult number in the “Atalanta Olympics”. Ghada concluded her international career by winning the bronze medal in the heptathlon at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, and then withdrawing due to injury from the 100-meter race at the Sydney Olympics.
What is remarkable about Shuaa’s career is that she started out playing basketball as a player in the Syrian Muhardah Club, before switching to athletics, testing her first global abilities in the “mother of all games” at the World Championships in Tokyo 1991, when she came in 24th place worldwide, and then advancing her career of achievements by winning the silver medal at the Mediterranean Games in France in 1993, scoring 6168 points.
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