Zainab Bakkour
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Zainab Bakkour |
| Nationality |
 Syria |
| Born |
29 March 1978 Damascus, Syria |
| Height | 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Long-distance running |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 5000 m: 17:03.60 |
Zainab Bakkour (Arabic: زينب بكور; born March 29, 1978 in Damascus) is a retired Syrian long-distance runner.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
References
- ↑ "Zainab Bakkour". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ "مشاركة رمزية لسورية في أثينا" [Syria's symbolic participation in Athens] (in Arabic). Al-Hayat. 4 August 2004. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ "IAAF Athens 2004: Women's 5000m Round 1 – Heat 1". Athens 2004. IAAF. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
External links
- Zainab Bakkour profile at IAAF