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

Syrian refugee swimmer Yusra Mardini ... but they did honour us,” she said. The Mardini sisters were reunited with their parents and youngest sibling once settled in Germany, and the family ...

She always wanted to be a swimmer and was receiving formal training for the same back in her nation, but after the war broke out, she and her sister had to leave Syria. Yusra Mardini searched for ...

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini, whose story inspired the ... she not only survived but along with her sister heroically saved the lives of everyone onboard her dinghy.

Anyone who watched the 2022 film The Swimmers will know Yusra Mardini’s story. She and her sister, Sara, fled war-torn Syria ...

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini was appointed the youngest-ever Goodwill ... In August 2015, Yusra fled the Syrian Civil War with her sister Sara. She made the treacherous journey to ...

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

Sarah Mardini and her younger sister Yusra are both world class swimmers from Syria. When they were trying to flee their war torn country the sisters' talent saved the lives of 18 people when ...

The 18-year-old Syrian swimmer is representing the Refugee ... Red Cross declared a state of civil war in Syria – Mardini and her elder sister Sarah fled their home in the war-torn capital ...

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini, actress and activist Sheryl Lee Ralph, and photojournalist Lynsey Addario ...

Mardini trained as a swimmer from a young age, representing Syria internationally in her early teens. Her home was destroyed in 2015, at which point she, sister Sarah Mardini and other family ...