Egypt's Abdel-Khaleq El-Banna reached the quarter finals in the men's rowing single sculls on Saturday after finishing third of heat 6.
He timed 7:34.05 minutes in the 1,500m event, coming after Jakob Nils Hoff from Norway (7:17.47m) and Damier Martin from Croatia (7:23.08m).
He will participate in the quarter finals on Tuesday.
Nadia Negm reached the quarter finals of the women's rowing single sculls after finishing third at heat 3.
She timed 9:15.55 minutes in the 1500m event, to come behind Carling Zeeman form Canada (8:41.12m) and Sanita Puspure from Ireland (9:11.45m).
