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Mar 29, 1978 Damascus, Damascus Governorate, Syria 46 years old
Olympic long-distance runner
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About Zainab Bakkour
- Zainab Bakkour (Arabic: ???? ?????; born March 29, 1978 in Damascus) is a retired Syrian long-distance runner.
- She represented her nation Syria at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also ran her own personal best and a national record of 17:03.60 in the women's 5000 metres at the 2000 Syrian Athletics Championships in Damascus. Bakkour qualified as a lone female athlete for the Syrian squad in the women's 5000 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by granting a tripartite invitation from the Syrian Olympic Committee and the IAAF.
- She ran a seasonal best of 17:18.66 to obtain an eighteenth spot in a field of twenty registered athletes, but did not advance further in the final, trailing behind the leader Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia by a wide, two-minute gap.
