Egyptian squash player Amr Shabana who won the world championship late last year and came first at the Bermuda Open Squash Championship held this month was on Monday bestowed sports medal of the first class by the President Hosni Mubarak.

Shabana expressed deep thanks to Mubarak and officials at the Sports Body in Egypt for such great honor, asserting he would exert utmost efforts in future squash events, especially at the coming world championship due to take place at the Pyramids plateau in Cairo in September.

The ceremony, held at the presidential headquarters in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis, was attended by Head of the National Council for Sports Hassan Saqr and chairman of the Egyptian Federation for Squash Galal Allam.

Source: Xinhua