Yusra Mardini OLY is a Syrian swimmer based in Hamburg, Germany, and she was a member of the Refugee Olympic Athletes Team (ROT), which participated under the Olympic flag at the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics in 2016. Yusra Mardini was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador on April 27, 2017, and she also competed with…
They arrived in Lebanon, then Turkey, where they arranged to be smuggled into Greece by boat with 18 other migrants, despite the fact that the boat was only designed to carry 6 or 7 people. After the motor failed and the dinghy began to take on water in the Aegean Sea, Yusra, Sara, and two…
Yusra Mardini is a Syrian swimmer who hailed from Syria but presently lives in Hamburg in Germany. Yusra Mardini was born on March 5, 1998, in Damascus, Syria. Yusra is measured by a height of 1.68 meters tall. Mardini was named the youngest-ever UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and competed with the refugee Olympic team in swimming…
