Zainab Bakkour

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.

Zainab Bakkour
Personal information
Full nameZainab Bakkour
Nationality Syria
Born (1978-03-29) 29 March 1978
Damascus, Syria
Height1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event(s)Long-distance running
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)5000 m: 17:03.60

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
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Zainab Bakkour". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  2. "مشاركة رمزية لسورية في أثينا" [Syria's symbolic participation in Athens] (in Arabic). Al-Hayat. 4 August 2004. Archived from the original on 12 February 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  3. "IAAF Athens 2004: Women's 5000m Round 1 – Heat 1". Athens 2004. IAAF. Retrieved 27 September 2013.


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