Giana Farouk

Giana Mohamed Farouk Lotfy is an Egyptian karateka, born on 10 December 1994. ^{1 2} She is a two-time world champion in the women's kumite 61 kg event and won one of the bronze medals in that event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. ¹

Farouk came to karate by chance at the age of six: she had been training in swimming and decided to leave it for karate. She later studied pharmacy at Cairo University. ³

Farouk won her first world title in the kumite 61 kg event in 2014 and a second in 2016, the year she also won the World University Championships title in Braga. ^{1 3} In 2018 she took silver at the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona and bronze at the World Championships in Madrid. ¹ In 2019 she won gold at the African Championships in Gaborone and bronze at the African Games in Rabat. ¹ At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 61 kg event, one of two karate medals Egypt won at those Games. ¹ Across her career she also won gold medals at the African Games, the Islamic Solidarity Games and the Mediterranean Games. ¹

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