Fatima Al -Barbar, 38, told Sky News Arabia that she was born blind, and she enrolled in the Al -Nour School for the Blind in Damietta, in its first opening, and excelled until she ranked first in her school in all educational levels in it, and in the secondary certificate she ranked first Governmental organisations operate at the level of the Damietta Governorate and are charitable.
After graduating from the blind school, she relocated to the Faculty of Arts, Mansoura University, Department of Arabic Language, where she is now employed as a teacher of this subject at the same institution.
She went to the College of Education to get a certification in special education because finishing this stage wasn’t her only goal. She also got a Holy Quran completion certificate from the Institute of Readings.
But how do all of these factors relate to its athletic success?
Fatima responds: “Along with my studies at school and university, I trained in the blind weightlifting sport, and I was a member of the Egyptian team that competed for the first time in the thirteenth World Championship for this game in 2018, winning third place globally. I then repeated my participation in the World Championship and the African Championship to be the third Global and the first in Africa, winning bronze and gold medals.
With her second-place finish at the sixteenth World Championship and two silver medals, she took a further step forward in the world this year.
Regarding the regional competitions, I said: “I haven’t stopped competing in them since 2018 and, with the exception of one championship due to the circumstances of the injury, I have always finished first in my budget.
A rare Egyptian infant was born blind. So I excelled globally in this sport
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