36 refugee athletes from 11 countries to compete together in Paris 2024

With just two days to go until the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics, 36 athletes from 11 countries will compete in 12 sports as part of the Refugee Olympic Team in Paris.

“The IOC Refugee Olympic Team sends a great message about what an enrichment refugees are to our Olympic community and to society as a whole. It is a great moment for all of us to see them compete, and we hope everyone will join in,” said Thomas Bach, IOC President, International Olympic Committee President in a statement.

“The athletes are welcomed into our Olympic community, among their fellow athletes. They compete with them, but also live with them under the same roof,” he added.

The Olympic Refugee Team will participate in the Summer Games for the third time.

The first Olympic Refugee Team was formed in Rio in 2016, with 10 refugee athletes competing. In 2020, the team was expanded to include 29 athletes who competed at the Games.

The team will compete for medals in a variety of sports including swimming, athletics, badminton, boxing, breakdancing, canoeing, cycling, judo, shooting, taekwondo, weightlifting and wrestling.

In the IOC refugee team for the Olympic Games, athletics has the most athletes, namely seven. Badminton and breakdance each have one athlete representing the team.

Iran was the country from which the most athletes emigrated, while Germany was the country that received the most emigrants from the Olympic refugee team.

– The names of the athletes in the Refugee Olympic Team are as follows:

Farida Abaroge (female, Ethiopia, France, athletics)

Omid Ahmadisafa (male, Iran, Germany, boxing)

Yahya Al Ghotany (male, Syria, Jordan, taekwondo)

Mohammad Amin Alsalami (male, Syria, Germany, athletics)

Amir Ansari (male, Afghanistan, Sweden, cycling)

Sibghatullah Arab (male, Afghanistan, Germany, judo)

Matin Balsini (male, Iran, Great Britain, swimming)

Mahboubeh Barbari Zharfi (woman, Iran, Germany, judo)

Edilio Francisco Centeno Nieves (male, Venezuela, Mexico, shooting sports)

Muna Dahouk (woman, Syria, Netherlands, judo)

Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed (male, Sudan, Israel, athletics)

Saeid Fazloula (male, Iran, Germany, canoe sprint)

Tachlowini Gabriyesos (male, Eritrea, Israel, athletics)

Eyeru Gebru (woman, Ethiopia, France, cycling)

Yekta Jamali Galeh (female, Iran, Germany, weightlifting)

Fernando Dayán Jorge Enríquez (male, Cuba, USA, canoe sprint)

Dorian Keletela (male, Democratic Republic of Congo, France, athletics)

Adnan Khankan (male, Syria, Germany, judo)

Perina Lokure (female, South Sudan, Kenya, athletics)

Iman Mahdavi (male, Iran, Italy, freestyle wrestling)

Farzad Mansouri (male, Afghanistan, Great Britain, taekwondo)

Alaa Maso (male, Syria, Germany, swimming)

Kasra Mehdipournejad (male, Iran, Germany, taekwondo)

Cindy Ngamba (female, Cameroon, Great Britain, boxing)

Dina Pouryounes Langeroudi (female, Iran, Netherlands, taekwondo)

Mohammad Rashnonezhad (male, Iran, Netherlands, judo)

Amir Rezanejad (male, Iran, Germany, canoe slalom)

Ramiro Mora Romero (male, Cuba, Great Britain, weightlifting)

Nigara Shaheen (female, Afghanistan, Canada, judo)

Luna Solomon (female, Eritrea, Switzerland, shooting sports)

Saman Soltani (woman, Iran, Austria, canoe sprint)

Musa Suliman (male, Sudan, Switzerland, athletics)

Manizha Talash (female, Afghanistan, Spain, breaking)

Hadi Tiranvalipour (male, Iran, Italy, taekwondo)

Jamal Valizadeh (male, Iran, France, Greco-Roman wrestling)