Ibrahim Al Hussein (born 23 September 1988) is a

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swimmer who represented the

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and resides in

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. 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. He is a co-recipient of the 2016

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.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

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who also lives in Athens, the Burundian refugee

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

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. and then he got sick before he was able to go to tokyo and after it he has been swimming and has been to lots of schools to introduce himself and say his past.

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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 {{Paralympics-stub