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Syrian Paralympic swimmer (born 1988) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ibrahim Al Hussein (born 23 September 1988) is a Syrian Paralympic swimmer who represented the Independent Paralympic Athletes Team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and resides in Greece.[2]
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Born | 23 September 1988 36) | (age
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Country | Greece |
Sport | Paralympic swimming |
Disability class | S9 |
Event(s) | 50 m, 100 m freestyle[1] |
He competed in the S9 50 m and 100 m freestyle events[1] and served as a flag bearer at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Parade of Nations. He is a co-recipient of the 2016 Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award.[3]
In June 2021, Ibrahim Al Hussein was chosen with four men and a woman to represent refugees at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. The six will be led by the Chef de Mission Ileana Rodriguez who was previously a parathlete swimmer for the US in 2012.[4] The other five are the Syrian refugee club thrower Alia Issa who also lives in Athens, the Burundian refugee Parfait Hakizimana, the American-based Afghan refugee swimmer Abbas Karimi, the German-based Syrian refugee canoeist Anas Al Khalifa, and American based Iranian refugee discus thrower Shahrad Nasajpour.[4]
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