Nancy Mohamed Ali Taman (born 15 November 1994; Alexandria, Egypt)[1] is an Egyptian artistic gymnast. Taman earned two gold medals in the 2018 Mediterranean Games[2][3] and the 2019 African Games[4] and won a silver medal in the 2015 African Games.
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| Full name | Nancy Mohamed Ali Taman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Egypt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 November 1994 Alexandria, Egypt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2007–present (EGY) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gymnastics career
editTaman started her gymnastics career in 1998 at the age of four. She made her international debut at the Gymnix International competition in 2007 as a member of the Egyptian Gymnastics Federation.[5]
Taman was part of the team that participated in the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Tokyo, Japan, as well as the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Antwerp, Belgium where she placed fifth in vault. She placed sixth in the women's individual all-around final at the 2013 Mediterranean Games hosted in Mersin, Turkey.
She competed for Egypt at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics held in Beijing, China. In 2015, Taman participated in three competitions; the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Glasgow, United Kingdom, the Challenge Cup in Croatia,[6] and the 2015 African Games held in Congo where she won a silver medal.[7][8] In 2018, Taman took part in the Osijek World Cup in Croatia. Later that year, she won a gold medal in vault at the 2018 Mediterranean Games.[9][10]
In 2019, Taman competed at the African Games where she won gold medals in the vault and team all-around events and a silver medal in the floor exercise event.[11]
In 2021, Taman competed at the Challenge World Cup in Cairo, winning the gold medal on vault.[12] At the 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, she became the first gymnast from the African continent to qualify to an event final. She finished fourth in the vault competition.[13]
Competitive history
edit| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| African Championships |  |
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| 2011 | |||||||
| World Championships | 144 | ||||||
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| 2013 | Mediterranean Games | 4 | 6 | 5 | 8 | ||
| World Championships | 82 | ||||||
| 2014 | |||||||
| World Championships | 113 | ||||||
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5 | 4 | ||
| Osijek World Challenge Cup | 4 | ||||||
| World Championships | 138 | ||||||
| 2017 | Egyptian Championships | 6 | |
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| Osijek Challenge Cup | 8 | ||||||
| Mediterranean Games | 4 | |
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| Szombathely Challenge Cup | 6 | ||||||
| World Championships | 25 | 91 | |||||
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| World Championships | 24 | 128 | |||||
| 2021 | Cairo Challenge Cup | |
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| Doha World Cup | |
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| World Championships | 4 | ||||||
| 2022 | Cairo World Cup | 8 | |||||
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| Paris Challenge Cup | 6 | ||||||
| World Championships | 22 | ||||||
| 2023 | Baku World Cup | 7 | |||||
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References
edit- ^ "Nancy Mohamed Taman". The Gymternet. 25 December 2015.
- ^ "Ahram Online - Egypt ranks 5th in 2018 Mediterranean Games as 3 more golds are added to the collection on Wednesday". english.ahram.org.eg. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "StackPath". dailynewsegypt.com. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ Musa, Developed By Heba. "القائمة الكاملة لميداليات مصر في دورة الألعاب الأفريقية بالمغرب". بوابة اخبار اليوم. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "نانسي طمان: "الجمباز" لعبة صعبة.. والحصول على الذهبية أصعب ما يكون | المصري اليوم". www.almasryalyoum.com (in Arabic).
- ^ "لاعبة الجمباز تطلب تدخل وزير الرياضة لإعادة الحقيبة المفقودة". اليوم السابع. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "نانسي طمان تحرز فضية فردي الجمباز في دورة الألعاب الأفريقية - بوابة الشروق". www.shorouknews.com (in Arabic).
- ^ "بعد حصدها "ذهبية الجمباز".. 7 معلومات عن البطلة المصرية نانسي طمان". honna.elwatannews.com.
- ^ "قصة صور.. نانسى طمان الفراشة الذهبية فى الجمباز". Youm7.
- ^ ""نانسي" الحائزة على ذهبية الجمباز.. قفزة "الفراشة" نحو الأولمبياد". masrawy.com.
- ^ "African Games (Gymnastics) Athlete Profile : TAMAN Nancy". www.jar2019.ma. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ "Nancy Taman has won the gold medal at the Cairo World Cup!".
- ^ https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/events/detail.php?id=16634#loaded