Nationality Emirati | ||
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Born October 21, 1989 (age 27) ( 1989-10-21 ) Occupation Sports Pioneer in the M.E., Olympic Weightlifter, and Motivational Speaker, and former Journalist. | ||
Amna Al Haddad (born 21 Oct 1989), is a female Olympic weightlifting athlete from the United Arab Emirates.
Amna Al Haddad started her weightlifting career in 2007. Her first competitive entrance was in October 2011. Since then she has competed in a number of international competitions. She then became the first Emirati female to compete in the Reebok Crossfit Games Open (February 22 – March 25, 2012) and was ranked 77th out of 170 women in Asia.
Later in May 2012, she koind the Asia Regionals crossfit team in Korea . She made history by being the first Emirati and GCC national to compete in the Asia Regionals and the only Muslim woman to do so in a headscarf.
She then embarked on Olympic Weightlifting in 2013 and have competed at the Arnold sport festival for three years consecutively and competed in Europe as well.
In April 2015, she competed at the IWF Asian interclub championship and won 6 gold medals and 3 silver in the Arab, West-Asian and Asian categories as a -63 kg, representing the UAE.
Amna was the first Arab female athlete to signal off We Run Dubai, Nike's 10K race in 2015.
Amna sometimes trains in the ritzy Jumeirah neighborhood of Dubai, in a gym housed inside a villa. She trains in a headscarf, fully covered in leggings and compression sleeves.
In 2016, in her own words, she had expressed her hope for her achievements to be an inspiration for Emarati women, representing her country in the Olympics in Rio that year.
A team of female Emirati weightlifters participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics, according to CNN.