Ghada Shouaa

Ghada Shouaa (Arabic غادة شعاع, DMG Gada Šu ʿ ā ʿ; born September 10, 1972 in Mhardeh ) is a former track and field athlete and Syrian heptathlete. She won in 1996 for her country's first ( and so far only ) gold medal at the Olympic Games. She lives in simmering.

Shouaas first sport was basketball; they played for a while in the Syrian national team, but then decided to switch to athletics. They earned their first heptathlon in season 1991. At the world championships in Tokyo in the same year she was last. The Asian Athletics Championship in November 1991, she won the silver medal.

At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 they classified themselves despite an injury to Rank 18 Your international breakthrough came in the 1995 season when she won the heptathlon important meeting ( Mösle Mehrkampf meeting ) in Götzis and scored 6715 points. Suddenly, she was the top favorite for the World Championships in Gothenburg. After their Mitkonkurrentin Sabine Braun was forced to retire due to injury, was Shouaa with a comfortable lead world champion.

In 1996, she again won the heptathlon at Mösle Mehrkampf meeting in Götzis and put it to the valid to date on new Asian record ( 6942 points). At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, she became the first Olympic champion of their country.

A serious injury ruined the whole of the next season. Shouaa managed the comeback again until 1999, when she was at the World Championships in Seville third parties. Shortly before the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney to Shouaa injured again and then stepped back from professional sports.

Even after their retreat, they remained true to the sport and trained the next generation of LGVG Emmelshausen.