Farida Osman
Osman in 2008
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| Full name | Farida Hisham Osman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Egypt
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18 January 1995 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States |
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| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Gezira Sporting Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of California, Berkeley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Farida Hisham Osman (born January 18, 1995) is an American-born competitive swimmer who has represented Egypt in international championships. An All-Africa Games gold medalist and Egyptian national champion and record-holder, she competes in the butterfly, freestyle and backstroke sprint events. She is currently coached by Ukrainian Volodymyr Hotsu at the Gezira Sporting Club. Osman holds the senior national records for all the butterfly, freestyle and backstroke sprint events, as well as an African record and title in the 50 m butterfly at 27.28 s. Osman won the 50 m butterfly event in a world junior championship record time of 26.69 s at the 3rd FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Lima, Peru, earning the first ever world medal for Egypt.
Daughter to dentists Hisham Osman and Randa Elsalawy, Osman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1995, and raised in Cairo, Egypt . She started swimming at the age of five at the Gezira Sporting Club with her brother Ahmed. Osman started at the Oasis French School in Cairo, but then transitioned to the French Embassy's Lycée Français du Caire. She studies at the Cairo American College.
Osman took a break from swimming to pursue her synchronized swimming passion. At the age of 11, she returned to swimming and won all the 50m and 100m freestyle and butterfly national titles, earning the "Best Swimmer" trophy. At the age of 12, she was selected to represent Egypt at the 11th Pan Arab Games in Cairo, Egypt. She was the youngest athlete on the team and participated in the 50m, 100m freestyle and the 50m and 100m butterfly. Osman broke the Arab record for the 50m butterfly where she became the youngest Egyptian and Arab athlete to ever win the event and break the record. She finished 6th in the 100m butterfly.
The same year she competed at the All Africa Games and finished fifth in the 50m butterfly with a time of 28.95.
Osman continued her career by participating in various international competitions such as the International Sindlefingen Swimming Competition (ISSC) where she competed in all sprint events in backstroke, butterfly and freestyle. She received the 2nd-place trophy for best sprinters in the competition.
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