It’s official: 36 athletes will make up the IOC Refugee Olympic Team for Paris 2024, representing the global displaced population of more than 100 million people at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
The 36 athletes come from 11 different countries of origin and are currently hosted by 15 different National Olympic Committees. In Paris 2024 they will compete in 12 different sports: aquatics (swimming), athletics, badminton, boxing, breaking, canoeing (slalom and sprint), cycling (road), judo, shooting, taekwondo, weightlifting and wrestling (freestyle and Greco-Roman) .
The president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, made the announcement on Thursday, May 2, at a ceremony held at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland. There he said: “We welcome you all with open arms. “You are an enrichment for our Olympic Community and for our societies.”
“With your participation in the Olympic Games, you will demonstrate the human potential for resilience and excellence. “This will send a message of hope to the more than 100 million displaced people around the world.”
The IOC Refugee Olympic Team is competing in the Olympic Games for the third time, following previous participations in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. This year, its head of mission will be Masomah Ali Zada, who competed as a member of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team. for Tokyo 2020.
IOC OLYMPIC REFUGEE TEAM FOR PARIS 2024 – MEET THE TEAM
These are the 36 athletes who have been selected for the IOC Refugee Olympic Team for Paris 2024, their gender, country of origin, host NOC and sport:
Farida Abaroge (women, Ethiopia, France, athletics)
Omid Ahmadisafa (male, Iran, Germany, boxing)
Yahya Al Ghotany (masculino, Syria, Jordan, taekwondo)
Mohammad Amin Alsalami (male, Syria, Germany, athletics)
Amir Ansari (male, Afghanistan, Sweden, road cycling)
Sibghatullah Arab (male, Afghanistan, Germany, judo)
Matin Balsini (male, Iran, Great Britain, swimming)
Mahboubeh Barbari Zharfi (female, Iran, Germany, judo)
Edilio Francisco Centeno Nieves (male, Venezuela, Mexico, shot)
Muna Dahouk (female, Syria, Netherlands, judo)
Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed (men, Sudan, Israel, athletics)
Saeid Fazloula (male, Iran, Germany, sprint canoeing)
Tachlowini Gabriyesos (men’s, Eritrea, Israel, athletics)
Eyeru Gebru (female, Ethiopia, France, road cycling)
Yekta Jamali Galeh (women, Iran, Germany, weightlifting)
Fernando Dayán Jorge Enríquez (male, Cuba, United States, sprint piragism)
Dorian Keletela (men’s, Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, athletics)
Adnan Khankan (male, Syria, Germany, judo)
Perina Lokure (women, South Sudan, Kenya, athletics)
Iman Mahdavi (male, Iran, Italy, wrestling)
Farzad Mansouri (male, Afghanistan, Great Britain, taekwondo)
Alaa Maso (male, Syria, Germany, swimming)
Kasra Mehdipournejad (male, Iran, Germany, taekwondo)
Cindy Ngamba (female, Cameroon, Great Britain, boxing)
Dina Pouryounes Langeroudi (female, Iran, Netherlands, taekwondo)
Mohammad Rashnonezhad (male, Iran, Netherlands, judo)
Amir Rezanejad (male, Iran, Germany, slalom canoeing)
Ramiro Mora Romero (male, Cuba, Great Britain, weightlifting)
Nigara Shaheen (female, Afghanistan, Canada, judo)
Luna Solomon (female, Eritrea, Switzerland, shot)
Saman Soltani (women, Iran, Austria, sprint canoeing)
Musa Suliman (male, Sudán, Suiza, athletics)
Manizha Talash (female, Afghanistan, Spain, breaking)
Hadi Tiranvalipour (male, Iran, Italy, taekwondo)
Jamal Valizadeh (male, Iran, France, Greco-Roman wrestling)
Dorsa Yavarivafa (women, Iran, Great Britain, badminton)
(With information from Olympics)
2024-05-03 06:34:26
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