Aida Mohamed

The native form of this personal name is Mohamed Aida. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Aida Mohamed (born 12 March 1976) is a Hungarian foil fencer, silver medallist at the 1993 World Championships and team gold medallist at the 2007 European Championships. She is the only Hungarian athlete in history to have competed at seven different Olympic Games (from 1996 to 2020).^[1][2][3]

Aida Mohamed
Mohamed in 2014
Personal information
Born	(1976-03-12) 12 March 1976 (age 49) Budapest, Hungary
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Weapon	Foil
Hand	left-handed
Club	MTK Budapest (1986–2009) Törekvés SE (2009-2013) Újpesti TE (2014–present)
Head coach	Antal Solti
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Women's foil fencing Representing  Hungary World Championships 1993 Essen Individual 1994 Athens Team 2002 Lisbon Individual 2003 Havana Individual 2007 Saint Petersburg Individual 2006 Torino Individual European Championships 2007 Ghent Team 1992 Lisbon Individual 2001 Koblenz Team 2002 Moscow Team 2008 Kyiv Team 1999 Bolzano Individual 2013 Zagreb Team 2015 Montreux Individual 2024 Basel Team

Career

Mohamed was born in Budapest from a Hungarian mother and a Syrian father. She was too shy in primary school to join the local fencing team, but her PE teacher persuaded her to give it a go. She then trained at the MTK sports club in Budapest with fencing master Antal Solti, who remained her personal coach as of 2013^[update]. She won in 1991 a bronze medal at the Cadet European Fencing Championships and the gold medal at the Junior World Championships. She retained her Junior title in 1992 and won it again in 1996.

At senior level she won her first major medal in 1992 with a silver medal at the 1992 European Championships, followed with another silver at the 1993 World Championships. She won the bronze medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after she lost 15–3 to Valentina Vezzali in the semi-finals.

Mohamed transferred to Törekvés SE in 2009 after 23 years at MTK, but continued training with Antal Solti.^[4]

Personal life

She married in 2005 former Canadian Olympic pentathlete and épée fencer, Laurie Shong, whom she met at the 1999 Seoul World Cup. They have two daughters, Olívia, born in 2009, and Leila, born in 2014.^[4]

Awards

• Hungarian Junior fencer of the Year (3): 1991, 1992, 1995
• Masterly youth athlete: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
• Hungarian Youth Athlete of the Year (1): 1992
• Hungarian Fencer of the Year (5): 1993, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2012

Orders and special awards

• Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Silver Cross (2004)
• Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Golden Cross (2008)