The following year, she competed in the women's 49 kg event at the 2011 World Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Baku, Azerbaijan where she was eliminated in her second match by Carolena Carstens of Panama.

In the same year, at the 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Palembang, Indonesia, she won the gold medal in the women's 49 kg event.

[2] In 2018, Abdelsalam won the gold medal in the women's 49 kg event at the African Taekwondo Championships in Agadir, Morocco.

[6] At the 2021 African Taekwondo Championships held in Dakar, Senegal, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 49 kg event.

[7] A few months later, she competed in the women's 49 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan where she was eliminated in her first match by Rukiye Yıldırım of Turkey.