Yusra Mardini grew up in Damascus, Syria, in a family passionate about sports. From a young age, swimming was her refuge. Her father, a swimmer himself, introduced her to the sport at an early age.

For the first time in a decade, Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini returned this month to Syria, the country whose civil war she ...

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, ...

Syrian refugee swimmer Yusra Mardini, who almost drowned at sea fleeing her war-torn country before competing at two Olympics, hopes a new film about her life will help other displaced people.

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini, whose story inspired the 2022 Netflix film The Swimmers, returned to Syria ten years after she fled the civil war to Europe. While crossing the ...

Yusra Mardini. The 18-year-old Syrian swimmer is representing the Refugee Olympic Team, a group of 10 ‘stateless’ athletes who’ll make their first appearance in Friday's opening ceremony.

Yusra Mardini went from swimming to survive as a Syrian refugee to swimming in the Rio Olympics. Show more The story Yusra Mardini, the teenage Syrian refugee who swam to survive, and was then ...

Netflix’s upcoming film The Swimmers tells the remarkable true ... In 2016, two sisters by the names of Sarah and Yusra Mardini competed at the Rio Olympic Games. But that the pair were related ...

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