Ibrahim Al Hussein (born 23 September 1988) is a Syrian

Paralympic The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Kore ...

swimmer who represented the Independent Paralympic Athletes Team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and resides in

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Career

He competed in the S9 50 m and

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freestyle events and served as a flag bearer at the

2016 Summer Paralympics Parade of Nations During the Parade of Nations at the 2016 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony, opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Paralympics, athletes from each participating country paraded in the Maracanã Stadium, preceded by its flag and placard barrier. Each ...

. He is a co-recipient of the 2016

Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award The Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award is named after South Korean Whang Youn Dai, Dr. Whang Youn Dai, who contracted polio at the age of three. She devoted her life to the development of paralympic sport in Korea and around the world. At the 1988 Su ...

.Swimmer Ibrahim Al Hussein Named Winner of Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award
Swimming World Magazine (15 September 2016). In June 2021, Ibrahim Al Hussein was chosen with four men and a woman to represent refugees at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. The six will be led by the Chef de Mission Ileana Rodriguez who was previously a parathlete swimmer for the US in 2012. The other five are the Syrian refugee club thrower

Alia Issa Alia Issa (born 4 January 2001) is one of the six refugees in the Refugee Paralympic Team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics who competed at the delayed Tokyo Paralympics. Issa is based in Athens. She was the first woman parathlete to represent ref ...

who also lives in Athens, the Burundian refugee

Parfait Hakizimana Parfait Hakizimana (born 1988) is a Burundian parataekwondo practitioner who currently resides in Rwanda. He represented the Refugee Paralympic Team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the under 61 kg category. Life Hakizimana was born in B ...

, the American-based Afghan refugee swimmer Abbas Karimi, the German-based Syrian refugee canoeist Anas Al Khalifa, and American based Iranian refugee discus thrower Shahrad Nasajpour.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hussein, Ibrahim Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Refugees of the Syrian civil war Syrian male freestyle swimmers 1988 births Living people Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics S9-classified para swimmers Triathletes at the 2024 Summer Paralympics 21st-century Syrian sportsmen