Jayda Sharaf (, born 17 May 2001) is an Egyptian artistic swimmer. She represented Egypt at the

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, held July–August 2021 in

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Life

She was born in

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, Egypt. She started Artistic Swimming at the age of 9 1/5, she has represented Egypt in the Fina World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships 2018 Budapest, Hungary, and the 18th FINA World Championships 2019 in Gwangju, South Korea. Previously, Jayda moved with her family for 1 year and a half to South Africa, 2013 - 2014, where she was the South African Champion in her age class and was selected to represent the Under 15 national team in the Comen Cup 2014, Alexandroupolis before returning to train in Egypt. She qualified in the women's team event at the

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* * * 2001 births Living people Egyptian synchronized swimmers Olympic synchronized swimmers for Egypt Artistic swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Swimmers from Cairo 21st-century Egyptian sportswomen {{Egypt-swimming-bio-stub