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Taekwondo medalists from Spain, Britain, Iran and Egypt at Rio Olympics, 2016 [ 1] Modern Muslim female athletes have achieved success in a variety of sports, including volleyball, tennis, association football, fencing, and basketball. [ 2] In the 2016 Summer Olympics, fourteen women from Muslim-majority countries won medals, participating in a ...
5 ft 4 in (163 cm) Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir (born 11 November 1990) is an American former collegiate basketball player. She was notable for playing basketball while wearing a hijab, a headscarf for Muslim women . Abdul-Qaadir scored 3,070 points in her high school career, setting the all-time scoring record in Massachusetts.
Les Hijabeuses is a French collective which advocates for the rights of Muslim women to wear hijab while playing association football. The group was founded in May 2020 rising to prominence because of their opposition to legislation which would have codified a ban on wearing hijab while playing organized sports. History
As a Muslim woman who had played whilst wearing the hijab for three years up until that point, it wasn't even an option for her. She recalls telling the match official: "You see me like this, and ...
The collective was created in October 2023 in a bid to fight back against discrimination in basketball and provide a sense of community to young Hijab-observing girls who love the sport.
"I have worn the hijab for 10 years," she said after a 21-12, 21-15 loss to Germany. "It doesn't keep me away from the things I love to do, and beach volleyball is one of them."
Cricket[edit] Further information: Saudi Arabia women's national cricket team. Informal cricket has been played by girls in international schools for a number of years,[21]but the first official women's cricket match in Saudi Arabia was played in Jeddahin March 2020, with a mixture of Saudi nationals and expatriates from cricket-playing countries.
Shireen Ahmed is a writer, public speaker, and award-winning sports activist focusing on Muslim women in sports, [1] [2] as well as the intersections of racism and misogyny in sports. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]