Yusra Mardini is a Syrian former competition swimmer and a refugee of the Syrian civil war. She was a member of the first Refugee Olympic Athletes Team, which competed under the Olympic flag at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and she competed again with the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. On 27 April 2017 she was appointed a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. In 2023 Time magazine named her, together with her sister Sarah, one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Her story of fleeing Syria and swimming for the refugee team made her one of the best known faces of the Olympic refugee programme.
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Born 5 March 1998 in Dimashq
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She was a member of the first ever Refugee Olympic Athletes Team
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is a Syrian former competition swimmer
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is a Syrian former competition swimmer
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that competed under the Olympic flag at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
Competed In: 2020 Summer Olympics, Career, 2020-summer-olympics
She also competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo
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