| Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz | |
| Full Name: | Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz Muhammad |
| Birth Date: | 30 March 1981 |
| Birth Place: | Giza, Egypt |
| Height: | 1.60 m |
| Weight: | 53 kg |
| Playingstyle: | Right-handed, classic |
| Club: | Al-Ahly Sports Club |
| Hrank: | 318 (May 2001) |
| Crank: | 566 (March 2013) |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz Muhammad (Arabic: شيماء عبد العزيز; born 30 March 1981 in Giza) is an Egyptian table tennis player.[1] She won a silver medal, along with her partner Moselhi Emad, in the mixed doubles at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria.[2] As of March 2013, Abdul-Aziz is ranked no. 566 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).[3] She is also right-handed, and uses the classic grip.[4]
Abdul-Aziz made her official debut, as a 19-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in both singles and doubles tournaments. For her first event, the women's singles, Abdul-Aziz placed third in the preliminary pool round against Russia's Galina Melnik and Hong Kong's Wong Ching, receiving a total score of 74 points, and two straight losses.[5] In the women's doubles, Abdul-Aziz and her partner Osman Bacent repeated their position in the preliminary pool round against Sweden's Åsa and Marie Svensson, and Belarus' Viktoria Pavlovich and Tatyana Kostromina, attaining only a total score of 45 points and losing four straight matches.[6]
Eight years after competing in her last Olympics, Abdul-Aziz qualified for her second Egyptian team, as a 27-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by receiving a place as one of the top 6 seeded players from the All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria.[7] [8] [9] She lost the preliminary round match of the women's singles tournament to Chinese Taipei's Pan Li-chun, with a unanimous set score of 0–4.[10]