Szeiny (Facebook profile, 25 Feb 2018)

Athlete, Student

Sports Marketing - Johan Cruyff Academy : Amsterdam, NED

Arabic, Dutch, English

SV Pax Haarlemmermeer [NED] / Wadi Degla [EGY]:

Patrick Kiens [SV Pax], NED; Daymon Montaigne-Jones [SV Pax]

2007

A knee injury hindered her while competing at the 2017 World Championships in Montreal, QC, Canada. (intlgymnast.com, 29 Dec 2017)

She suffered from an inflammation of the nerves in her left eye a week before the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. She lost nearly 90% of the vision in her eye, and was in hospital for three days. She recovered in time to compete in Glasgow. (intogymnastics.nl, 2016)

She underwent knee surgery to repair damage to her anterior cruciate ligament [ACL] after the 2012 Olympic Games. She was sidelined for two years, returning to training nine months before the 2015 World Championships. (Athlete, 01 Aug 2016; intogymnastics.nl, 2016)

She first tried the sport at age three, and attended weekly sessions at her school gym from age six.

A trainer at her school gym noticed her talent and advised her mother to take her to the DOS Alphen aan den Rijn club in the Netherlands. "My classmates went as well and I really enjoyed it since I always used to do saltos between beds at home."

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (intlgymnast.com, 29 Dec 2017)

Competing at the 2004 European Junior Championships with the Dutch team, and winning gold in the floor exercise at the 2007 All African Games in Algiers, Algeria, which was her first competition for Egypt. (Athlete, 01 Aug 2016)

Her mother. (Athlete, 01 Aug 2016)

"Where there is a will, there is a way." (Athlete, 01 Aug 2016)

NATIONAL FIRST
She became the first female gymnast representing Egypt to participate at the Olympic Games, when she competed at the 2008 Games in Beijing. (SportsDeskOnline, 27 Jul 2012)

FROM NETHERLANDS TO EGYPT
She represented the Netherlands at junior level but in 2007 decided to compete for Egypt. "With the Dutch national team, my chances to qualify individually for the Olympics in Beijing 2008 were very slim. So in 2007, my Russian coach Boris Orlov advised me to compete for Egypt in order to qualify individually for the Olympics." (dailynewsofegypt.com, 03 Dec 2015)