Farida Osman

Farida Osman, born in Indianapolis on 18 January 1995 and raised in Cairo, is an Egyptian-American competitive swimmer specialising in butterfly and freestyle. She holds Egyptian national records in all butterfly, freestyle and backstroke events and African records in the 50 and 100 metre butterfly. She swam for Egypt at the 2012 London Olympics, became the first Egyptian to reach a final at the World Aquatics Championships in 2013, and won bronze in the 50 metre butterfly at the 2017 world championships with an African record of 25.39. She won two golds and a silver at the 2018 Mediterranean Games, and later studied and swam at the University of California, Berkeley, where she won an NCAA title in the 100 yard butterfly.