enviornment is happy to announce that it has signed World Championship medallist Farida Osman in a sponsorship deal that runs by to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The 23-year-old Egyptian, a freestyle and butterfly sprinter, received the 50m butterfly bronze on the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, and at the moment holds the African data in 50m freestyle, and 50 & 100m butterfly.
The daughter of dentist mother and father, Farida was born in Indianapolis, USA, and raised in Cairo, Egypt, the place she began swimming at a younger age. After taking a break to pursue her synchronized swimming ardour – “I liked how we used to bounce within the water, and the way fancy, artistic and flashy the swimsuits have been” – she returned to swimming, and made the Egyptian nationwide workforce for the primary time on the 2007 Pan Arab Video games in Cairo, the place she grew to become the youngest ever Arab athlete to win the 50m butterfly title and break the Arab document. She was 12 years outdated.
In 2009 as a 14-year-old, she competed in her first World Championships in Rome, after which two months later on the Junior African Championships in Mauritius she received the 50m freestyle, butterfly and backstroke occasions, setting junior African data within the first two. Farida received her first international title – 50m butterfly – on the 2011 FINA World Junior Championships in Lima, setting a brand new championship document within the course of. In 2012 she made her Olympic debut in London, and a 12 months later went on to her first World Championship last in Barcelona, the place she completed seventh in her signature occasion (50m butterfly). In doing so she grew to become the primary Egyptian to qualify for a last on the World Championships.
Since then Farida’s profession path has continued to climb. In Budapest, 2017, she grew to become the primary Egyptian to medal at a World Championships, taking the 50m butterfly bronze in a brand new African document, and in 2018 in Tarragona, Spain, she broke Mediterranean Video games data in each her 50m freestyle and 50m butterfly victories.
“Tremendous excited to be becoming a member of the Enviornment Household!!” stated Farida. “enviornment is understood for supporting the strongest athletes from everywhere in the world, so the truth that I get to be a part of that’s actually an honor. Thanks enviornment for believing in and supporting me to take my profession to the following degree. I’m actually wanting ahead to proceed being a pacesetter and provoking others by this partnership.”
After beginning out with the Gezira Sporting Membership in Cairo, Farida moved to the US, the place she trains with coach Teri McKeever on the College of California, Berkeley. On the 2016-17 NCAA Championships, she was one in every of solely three Cal athletes to win particular person titles.
As an iconic sports activities character in Egypt – she was named the Greatest Feminine Athlete from Africa by the Affiliation of Nationwide Olympic Committees in 2017 – Farida is eager to encourage kids from Egypt and the Arab world to take up swimming, because it “teaches us much more than simply medals and achievements – a wholesome way of life, my strengths and weaknesses, how I react below stress, time administration – and so it additionally builds character.”
Proper now Farida’s medium-term sights are focused on the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, the place she hopes “to have the ability to medal and last in additional of my occasions.”
Farida Osman Profile
- Born 18 January 1995 in Indianapolis, USA
- Coached by Teri McKeever on the College of California, Berkeley
- World Championship medals: 1 bronze (2017)
- First Egyptian athlete to win a World Championship medal in swimming
- First represented her nation’s nationwide senior workforce as a 12-year-old on the Pan Arab Video games, the place she grew to become the youngest ever athlete to win an occasion (50m butterfly) and break the Arab document
- Presently holds the African data in 50m freestyle, and 50 & 100m butterfly
- Awards:
- 2017 Greatest Feminine Athlete from Africa by the Affiliation of Nationwide Olympic Committees
- 2017 Feminine African Swimmer of the 12 months by Swimming World journal
- Tom Hansen Medal as the highest feminine athlete for the 2016/17 season on the College of California Berkeley
- Nickname: The Golden Fish
- Hobbies: Travelling, procuring, trend design, kickboxing
- Passions exterior swimming: Vogue. “I actually get pleasure from procuring and maintaining with trend traits. I like dressing up. If I didn’t have swimming, I’d most likely contemplate modeling.”
- Motto: By no means a failure, all the time a lesson
- Motivation: “Swimming teaches us much more than simply medals and achievements, it builds character and abilities which you can apply in all spheres of life past swimming.”
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Picture credit score: Coucla Refaat
