Egyptian table tennis champion Hana Goda has won the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Sports Creativity Award in the category of Best Arab Junior.
Goda competed with six Arab athletes for the prestigious award, including Tunisian tennis player Nour Sahnoun, Moroccan tennis player Malak al-Allami, along with Syrian weightlifter Ahmed Ibrahim, Algerian judo player Abdel Rahim Mujahid, and Saudi karate player Abdel Aziz Saif.
The Egyptian prodigy topped the world table tennis rankings more than once, in the under 15, 17, and 19 age groups.
The Egyptian table tennis player further ranked 29th in the world rankings, according to the International Table Tennis Federation, in the women’s category.
The awards ceremony for the 12th edition of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Sports Creativity Award was held on Wednesday, which is one of the global initiatives of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
The 12th edition of the Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum Sports Creativity Award is the largest in the event’s history, in terms of the number of candidates for the various branches and the number of winners – up to 30 in various categories hailing from the UAE, all parts of the Arab world and globally.
