Sherif Farrag is an

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

ian- American fencer. He represented Egypt at the

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in the team foil event. He represented the United States in

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competition before switching to Egypt. Farrag graduated from

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, where he competed on the Columbia Lions fencing team, in 2009.

References

Living people Egyptian male foil fencers Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Columbia Lions fencers Olympic fencers for Egypt 1987 births 21st-century Egyptian sportsmen {{Egypt-fencing-bio-stub