The Egyptian Olympic handball team will face its Spanish counterpart in the quarter-finals of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Wednesday at 6:30 pm Cairo time.
The 33rd edition of the Olympic Games began on July 26 and will end on August 11.
The match will be broadcast on encrypted Qatari beIN Sports channels – the exclusive broadcaster of the Olympics handball matches – specifically beIN SPORTS 3HD, and can also be watched via the TOD smartphone application.
Egypt Handball Team List
- Goalkeepers: Karim Hendawy (Al-Safa, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Ali (Sporting Lisbon).
- Left winger: Omar al-Wakil Bakkar (Zamalek).
- Left back: Ali Zein (Dinamo Bucharest, Romania), Ahmed Hesham el-Sayed Dodo (Montpellier, France), Abdulrahman Faisal (Al-Ahly).
- Playmaker: Yehia al-Deraa (Veszprém, Hungary), Saif el-Deraa (Limoges, France).
- Right back: Yehia Khaled (Paris Saint-Germain, France), Mahab Saeed (Nîmes, France).
- Right winger: Mohamed Sand (Nîmes, France).
- Circle: Ibrahim al-Masry (Al-Ahly), Ahmed Adel (Al-Ahly), Mohamed Tarek (Zamalek).
- Reserve: Mohamed Essam al-Tayar (Hamburg, Germany), Akram Youssef (Zamalek), Khaled Walid (Besiktas, Turkey).
The Egyptian handball team defeated its Argentinian counterpart with a score of 34-27, causing the Pharaohs to jump to second place in the Group two standings with seven points.
Egypt Group Standings:
- Denmark: Five matches 10 points
- Egypt: Five matches seven points
- Norway: Five matches six points
- France: Five matches five points
- Hungary: Five matches two points
- Argentina: Five matches 0 points
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
