coronation "Farida Khalil" World champion in modern pentathlon, best Arab athlete for 2025
Farida Khalil, the Egyptian national team player and world champion in the modern pentathlon, was crowned with the Best Arab Athlete Award for the year 2025 at the Fatima Bint Mubarak Women’s Sports Awards for the year 2025, at the ceremony held today, Tuesday, at the Emirates Palace in the capital, Abu Dhabi.
Sheikh Nahyan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Zayed Foundation for Charitable and Humanitarian Works, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Sports Council, crowned the winners of the award. Fatima Bint Mubarak for Women’s Sports for the Year 2025.
Farida Khalil won the Best Arab Athlete Award, and she is the youngest Arab and international champion to achieve unprecedented achievements in the sport of modern pentathlon by obtaining 4 world championship titles, after a fierce competition with Sarah Abdel Rahman Al-Hawal from Kuwait and Marwa Omar Bouziani from Tunisia.
The Fatima Bint Mubarak Women’s Sports Award aims to empower women in the sports sector, and highlight their achievements over the course of an entire year, in addition to enhancing competitiveness and excellence in women’s sports, and the total prizes in various categories reach two million dirhams.
The Best Emirati Athlete award was won by Salma Haitham Al Marri, the Emirati shooting champion, and the Best Emirati Paralympic Athlete award was won by Dhikra Ahmed Al Kaabi, the Paralympic athletics champion and gold medalist in the 100 meter race at the 2025 World Championships in India, with a world record time of 19.88 seconds.
The award for best sports mother was won by Emirati Maryam Hassan Al Marzouqi, a former athlete in football, volleyball, and basketball, and the mother of three sons who are champions in jiu-jitsu.
Emirati Mona Faisal Al Shara, a bow and arrow player at the Sharjah Women’s Sports Club, won the Best Emerging Athlete Award, while the athletics team at the Sharjah Women’s Sports Club won the Best Team Award. Tunisian judo coach Nihal Reda Muhammad won the Best Trainer Award, while Saudi Arabia’s Maha Youssef Al-Khalifa was crowned Best Media Influencer.
The award honored Princess Reema bint Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud as the Sports Personality of the Year in the Arab world.
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