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Medal record Women's Athletics Competitor for  Syria Olympic Games Gold 1996 Atlanta Heptathlon World Championships Gold 1995 Gothenburg Heptathlon Bronze 1999 Seville Heptathlon Asian Championships Gold 1993 Manila Heptathlon Silver 1991 Kuala Lumpur Heptathlon Ghada Shouaa (Arabic: غادة شعاع‎; born September 10, 1973) is a Syrian former heptathlete. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, she won her country's first and only Olympic gold medal. Born in the small Syrian city of Mhardeh in the Hama Governorate, Shouaa's first sport was basketball.[1] She played on the Syrian national team for a few years, but then decided to compete in athletics. She did her first heptathlon in 1991, and was immediately sent to the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, where she placed last.[1] She concluded her first athletics season with a silver medal in the Asian championships. Shouaa debuted at the Olympics in the 1992 Barcelona Games, placing 18th in spite of an injury. Her breakthrough did not come until 1995, when she won the important heptathlon meet in Götzis, scoring 6715 points. This boosted her to one of the favourites for the title at the 1995 World Championships, held in Gothenburg. After co-favorite Sabine Braun dropped out with an injury, Shouaa won the title with a comfortable margin.[1] The following season, Shouaa again won the Götzis meet, bringing the still-standing Asian record to 6942 points. In Atlanta, three months later, she confirmed her status as the best heptathlete at the time, winning Syria's first Olympic gold medal.[1] A serious injury ruined the following season, and she was unable to make a serious comeback until 1999, when she placed third at the World Championships behind Eunice Barber.[1] Shouaa attempted to defend her Olympic title in Sydney, but she again became injured and did not even finish the first event.[1] After this disappointment, she decided to retire from athletics. See also List of Syrian people References ^ a b c d e f "Ghada Shouaa". Damascus-Online.com. http://damascus-online.com/se/bio/shouaa_ghada.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-22.  External links Official website IAAF profile for Ghada Shouaa Sporting positions Preceded by Heike Drechsler Women's Heptathlon Best Year Performance 1995 — 1996 Succeeded by Sabine Braun v • d • e Olympic Champions in Women's Pentathlon and Heptathlon Pentathlon 1964: Irina Press (URS)  · 1968: Ingrid Becker (FRG)  · 1972: Mary Peters (GBR)  · 1976: Siegrun Siegl (GDR)  · 1980: Nadezhda Tkachenko (URS) Heptathlon 1984: Glynis Nunn (AUS)  · 1988: Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)  · 1992: Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)  · 1996: Ghada Shouaa (SYR)  · 2000: Denise Lewis (GBR)  · 2004: Carolina Klüft (SWE)  · 2008: Nataliya Dobrynska (UKR) v • d • e World Champions in Women's Heptathlon 1983: Ramona Neubert  · 1987: Jackie Joyner-Kersee  · 1991: Sabine Braun  · 1993: Jackie Joyner-Kersee  · 1995: Ghada Shouaa  · 1997: Sabine Braun  · 1999: Eunice Barber  · 2001: Yelena Prokhorova  · 2003: Carolina Klüft  · 2005: Carolina Klüft  · 2007: Carolina Klüft  · 2009: Jessica Ennis Persondata Name Shouaa, Ghada Alternative names Short description Date of birth September 10, 1972 Place of birth Date of death Place of death This biographical article relating to Syrian athletics is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e