Ibrahim Al Hussein


Ibrahim Al Hussein is a Syrian Paralympic swimmer who represented the Independent [Paralympic Athletes Team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics] and resides in Greece.
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Career

He competed in the S9 Swimming at the [2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle S9|50 m] and Swimming at the 2016 [Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle S9|100 m] freestyle events and served as a flag bearer at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Parade of Nations. He is a co-recipient of the 2016 Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award.
In June 2021, Ibrahim Al Hussein was chosen with four men and a woman to represent Refugee [Paralympic Team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics|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 Alia Issa who also lives in Athens, the Burundian refugee Parfait Hakizimana, the American-based Afghan refugee swimmer Abbas Karimi, the German-based Syrian refugee canoeist Anas Al Khalifa, and American based Iranian refugee discus thrower Shahrad Nasajpour.