Egypt’s Ahmed Elgendy has won the men’s modern pentathlon at the 2024 Olympic Games, becoming only the second non-European and the first African to win the traditional multi-event discipline. In the ...

Egyptian athlete Ahmed Elgendy achieved an Olympic record by amassing 1516 points in the Men's Modern Pentathlon, securing a spot in the event's final on Friday 9/8/2024. Elgendy, 24, surpassed ...

PARIS, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Egypt, the most populous Arab country, has only a single bronze medal so far from the Paris Olympics and the pressure is building on Ahmed Elgendy. The modern pentathlete won ...

CAIRO, July 13 (Reuters) - When Ahmed Elgendy met Mohamed Salah in January, he was given a pep talk and posed for a picture with the Egyptian soccer star while wearing the modern pentathlon silver ...

The modern pentathlete won silver as a relative unknown at the Tokyo Games in 2021, becoming the first African to win an Olympic medal in the sport, but he starts the competition on Thursday with a ...

VERSAILLES, France (AP) — Ahmed Elgendy of Egypt became the first athlete from Africa to win the Olympic gold medal in modern pentathlon at the Paris Games on Saturday. Elgendy had dealt with shoulder ...

Egypt's Ahmed Elgendy traded his Tokyo silver for gold in Paris, setting a world record in the men's modern pentathlon.