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 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 fled in 2015. Her journey away from her homeland, which led to two ...

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.

In 2016, two sisters by the names of Sarah and Yusra Mardini competed at the Rio Olympic ... “The Swimmers was the very best kind of surprise when we saw it this summer — an exciting, epic ...

The swimming domain also has one such inspiring tale to tell the world. It is Yusra Mardini who evaded from her war-torn nation, Syria, due to the extraneous situations in the country caused by ...

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 ...