HEDAYA MALAK

The Start

Hedaya Ahmed Malak Wahba is an Egyptian Taekwondo Female athlete who started playingTaekwondo at the age of 8 in the Egyptian Shooting Club, a club that is well known for its world class Taekwondo history.Hedaya chose to play Taekwondo to follow her older brother’s footsteps who was a junior national champion.She won her first gold medal at the age of 11 in Egypt’s Nationals under 12years old,& was the youngest Egyptian player ever to win the senior national championship at the age of 14

The Start cont..

Hedaya achieved several arab & african medals with the junior Egyptian national team, then joined the senior national team in 2011. She suprised everyone when she started her senior career with a consecutive unprescedented series of victories & international titles.

Important Milestones

• Hedaya was nominated to a training camp with the French female National team, the best female team in Europe, with whom she was able to win the 3rd place in the 2014 Teams World Cup in Mexico. This took hedaya to the 3rd place in the International ranking .
• Hedaya was introduced to Egyptian media in December 2015 when she was able to clinch the Gold medal in the WTF Final Grandprix in Mexico, overcoming the 1st & 2nd world ranked players. For the first time, millions of Egyptian witnessed Hedaya side by side with the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt in his speaches & in national events.
• Hedaya recieved glamorous attractive offers to play for other countries, specially as she has a US nationality through her american mother, & inspite of all the temptations offered to her as an important world class athlete who is always a candidate for olympic medals, but the thought of playing for anywhere except her Egyptian flag never crossed her mind. For the first time in the sport’s african history, hedaya agreed to play against a morroccon disabled player in the final of the african paralympic championship 2016, and allowed the morrocon champ to win her first title.

Hedaya not only captured the hearts of her people in Egypt, but she also fascinated the international taekwondo scene.The World Taekwondo Federation crowned Hedaya with the title Miss Grandprix in Moscow.She was also chosen as best player in Fujaira international championship, in addition to numerous titles, with the Princess of Hearts remaining as the most suitable for her .