Mariam Mamdouh Farid (born 1 February 1998) is a

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i athlete. She represented her country at the 17th World Athletics Championship held in

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in 2019, where she ran in the Women's 400 metres hurdles. She came last in her heat with a time of 1m 09.49s, her personal best, and achieved international recognition because she and another woman were the first female Qatari athletes to take part in the world championships. She wore a full body black

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under her team singlet. She had previously competed in the

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in the junior world championships held in

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, Poland in 2016, with a time of 30.25s in her heat. At the time of the 2019 event she was studying communications at the Doha campus of the American

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. She said after the 2019 event:

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* 1998 births Living people Qatari female athletes {{Qatar-sport-bio-stub