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Bayan Jumah (Arabic: بيان جمعة) is a Syrian swimmer from Aleppo who specializes in butterfly and freestyle events. An ISG silver medalist and Syrian national champion and record-holder. Jumah was the second Syrian female swimmer to compete at the Olympic Games, following Marella Mamoun in 2000.




Career


In 2007, Jumah was picked for the national team, in which she managed to break three national records in the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she withdrew from a heat in the 50 metre freestyle in which she would have faced Olympian Anya Gostomelsky, refusing to swim alongside an Israeli. Gostomelsky set a new Israeli national record in the race. Asked what her reaction was, Gostomelsky said: "I didn't notice that the lane was empty. That's her problem." In 2009, she won her first international medal at the Arab Games in Jordan.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's 100 metre freestyle, finishing in 40th place overall out of 48 swimmers in the first round heats, failing to qualify for the second round. In 2013, she broke several national records in swimming, including the 100m and 200m freestyle and the 100 m breaststroke events, at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.
She also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Women's 50 m freestyle and finished 49th with a time of 26.41 seconds. In 2019, she finished 7th in the 50m freestyle event at the Asian Age Group Championships in Bengaluru, India; hence, she did not qualify to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.




See also


Boycotts of Israel in individual sports
List of Syrian records in swimming




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Renang pada Olimpiade Musim Panas 2016
• Bayan Jumah
• Boycotts of Israel in sports
• Syria at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships
• Swimming at the 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games
• Swimming at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games
• Swimming at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' 100 metre freestyle
• List of Syrian records in swimming
• Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 metre freestyle
• Syria at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
• Swimming at the 2014 Asian Games – Women's 400 metre freestyle