Ghada Shouaa – #10 All-time Heptathlon Athlete

Personal Stats

D.O.B: 09.10.73
N.O.C: Syria
Height: 187 cm
Weight: 63 kg
Final Year of Competition: 1999
Years Top 10: 3

Personal Bests

Pentathlon/Heptathlon: 6,942 (Austria 1996)
Long Jump: 6.77 (Austria 1996)
High Jump: 1.87 (Austria 1996)
200m: 23.78 (Austria 1996)
800m: 2:13.59 (Japan 1994)
Javelin Throw: 54.82 (Spain 1999)
Shot Put: 16.25 (Jordan 1999)

Kicking off our HEPTATHLON Top 10 with Syria’s first ever Olympic Champion!!!

Kicking off our HEPTATHLON Top 10 with Syria’s first ever Olympic Champion!!!🙌⬇️
GHADA SHOUAA was Heptathlon World Champion in 1995, backed up by becoming Olympic Champion in 1996 – Syria’s FIRST EVER OLYMPIC GOLD!!!✨
A fantastic all-round athlete, Shouaa transitioned from Syria’s national basketball team to Track & Field with relative ease – her Personal Best of 6,942 points remains 10th on the All-Time List some 28 years later!!!👏
In the end, injury cut short Shouaa’s time at the top of the event, but not before she battled back to achieve World Bronze in 1999…💪