Farida Khalil
Farida Khalil is an Egyptian modern pentathlete. She won the 2025 World Modern Pentathlon Championships.
Career
She was a gold medalist in the relay at the 2023 World Junior Modern Pentathlon Championships alongside Malak Ismail in Druskininkai, Lithuania.During the 2025 season, she won the under-17, under-19 and under-22 World Championship titles before then moving up to senior events. She won her first senior Modern Pentathlon World Cup gold medal in July 2025 at the age of 14 years-old.
In August 2025, she won the individual gold medal at the 2025 World Modern Pentathlon Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania in August 2025, winning by a significant margin, finishing it 11.95 seconds ahead of Hungary’s Blanka Guzi.