Afaf El-Hodhod (; born October 1, 1996, in

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) is an Egyptian sport shooter. She won a total of three medals, including two golds, in both air and sport pistol at the African Shooting Championships (2014 and 2015), and also attained a top-five finish at the

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. El-Hodhod made her first Olympic team for Egypt as a seventeen-year-old at the

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, where she competed in the girls' 10 m air pistol. Coming to the final with a third seed at 380 points, El-Hodhod commanded an early lead after thirteen shots, but then spoiled her previous good results with a 7.7 that saw her fall to fifth at 137.4. When

hosted the 2015 African Championships on her senior debut, El-Hodhod broke an African record of 381 out of a possible 400 approaching to the final, and then beat Tunisia's 2012 Olympian Noura Nasri in a duel to defend her air pistol title with a score of 198.2; the first being previously done as a junior in 2014.

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* * 1996 births Living people Egyptian female sport shooters Shooters at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Sport shooters from Cairo Olympic shooters for Egypt Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Egypt Mediterranean Games medalists in shooting Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games 21st-century Egyptian sportswomen {{Egypt-sportshooting-bio-stub