Afaf El-Hodhod

{{short description|Egyptian sport shooter}}

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Afaf El-Hodhod ({{langx|ar|عفاف هدهد}}; born October 1, 1996, in Cairo) is an Egyptian sport shooter.{{cite web|title=ISSF Profile – Afaf El-Hodhod|url=http://www.issf-sports.org/shooters/shooter.ashx?personissfid=SHEGYW0110199601|publisher=ISSF|accessdate=7 December 2015}} 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 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.{{cite news|first=Liam|last=Morgan|title=Namibian and Egyptian shooters earn Rio 2016 quota places with victories at African Shooting Championships|url=http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1032268/namibian-and-egyptian-shooters-earn-rio-2016-quota-places-with-victories-at-african-shooting-championships|publisher=Inside the Games|date=5 December 2015|accessdate=7 December 2015}}

El-Hodhod made her first Olympic team for Egypt as a seventeen-year-old at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, 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.{{cite news|first=Alessandro|last=Ceschi|title=Last-minute 10.7 gives Nowak first gold of Nanjing|url=http://www.issf-sports.org/news.ashx?newsid=2125|publisher=ISSF|date=17 August 2014|accessdate=7 December 2015}}{{cite web|title=Nanjing 2014: Women's 10m Air Pistol Final Results|url=http://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=1291&resultkey=3b3b303b415034303b303b463b493b313b303b30|publisher=ISSF|accessdate=7 December 2015}}

When Cairo 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.{{cite news|title=Egyptian female player qualified for Rio Olympic Games|url=http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Templates/Articles/tmpArticleNews.aspx?ArtID=98150|publisher=Egypt State Information Service|date=5 December 2015|accessdate=7 December 2015}}