Azmy Mehelba

Azmy Mehelba, a distinguished Egyptian Olympic shooter, has achieved global recognition with multiple international victories and four Olympic appearances, consistently demonstrating his expertise in skeet shooting. After securing his first skeet shooting world title at the ISSF World Championship in 2022, Azmy Mehelba established himself as a distinguished Egyptian Olympic shooter and a global leader in the sport. Mehelba joined the Egyptian national men’s skeet shooting team at 14, making his international competition debut at 15. He achieved a sixth-place finish at the 2007 World Championship in Cyprus.

In 2023, he further solidified his dominance by achieving a new world record with a perfect score of 125/125 at the World Championship in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he also earned a Bronze medal. Later that year, Mehelba and his brother, fellow Olympian Abdel-Aziz Mehelba, shared the podium at the World Cup Final in Doha, winning medals in both skeet and trap events. Azmy Mehelba currently holds the world ranking number 1 in skeet shooting, a testament to his consistent top rankings with the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) throughout his career. In 2024, he continued his winning streak with a Gold medal at the World Cup Cairo and made his fourth consecutive Olympic appearance at the Paris 2024 Games, again finishing 10th, one target shy of the finals.

Recognizing his profound contributions to Egyptian sports, the shooting range at the Alexandria shooting club has been named in his honor.