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Yusra Mardini OLY (Arabic: يسرى مارديني; born 5 March 1998) is a Syrian former competition swimmer and refugee of the Syrian civil war. She was a member of the Refugee Olympic Athletes Team (ROT) that competed under the Olympic flag at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Forced to flee war-torn Syria in 2015 in search of a new life, she almost died on the treacherous boat journey over to Europe. After settling in Germany, the talented swimmer made her way back to the pool, and one year later was selected to represent the first IOC Refugee Olympic Team at Rio 2016.
📲 Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe Olympic Refugee Team member Yusra Mardini wins her 100m butterfly heat two years after swimming for her l...
Apr 13, 2023 · By Cate Blanchett. April 13, 2023 6:32 AM EDT. In 2015, sisters and competitive swimmers Yusra and Sara Mardini fled Syria because of conflict. During the dangerous sea crossing from...
Nov 23, 2022 · Yusra and Sara Mardini saved a boatful of fellow asylum seekers from drowning in the Aegean Sea. Now Netflix's 'The Swimmers' tells their story.
Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini was appointed the youngest-ever Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency in April 2017, aged just nineteen. By sharing her inspiring story, Yusra has become a powerful voice for forcibly displaced people worldwide.
The now-retired swimmer, and two-time Olympian, has seen her story well documented, even becoming a Netflix movie. From fleeing war-torn Syria with her sister Sarah to competing at Rio 2016 and then being a flag bearer at Tokyo 2020, it is a tale of real courage and resilience.
Read the remarkable journey of Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini who spoke with Katie Ledecky ahead of swimming in her second Olympic Games at Tokyo 2020.
Sep 9, 2022 · New Netflix film, The Swimmers, tells the remarkable tale of Yusra Mardini, a young Syrian refugee and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, who escaped conflict and went on to compete in two Olympics.
Nov 23, 2022 · In 2015, Yusra and Sara Mardini left their home country of Syria, which was being torn apart by war, in a bid to reach Europe and get safe passage for the rest of their...
