Sarah Attar
Attar at the 2016 Olympics
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| Personal information | |
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| Nationality | United States-Saudi Arabia |
| Born |
August 27, 1992 Escondido, California, United States |
| Residence | Mammoth Lakes, California |
| Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) |
| Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) |
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| Country |
 Saudi Arabia
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| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | 800 metres and marathon |
| College team | Pepperdine University |
| Club | Mammoth Track Club |
| Coached by | Andrew Kastor |
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Sarah Attar (Arabic: سارة عطار; born August 27, 1992), is an American-born track and field athlete who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics as one of the first two female Olympians representing Saudi Arabia. She also competed in the marathon at the 2016 Olympics.
Attar has lived in the United States her entire life, but has dual US-Saudi citizenship through her father, who was born in Saudi Arabia. She was invited to participate in the Olympics despite her not having met the standard Olympic qualifying times, which were waived by the International Olympic Committee.
Attar was born and raised in Escondido, California, close to San Diego. Her mother, Judy, is an American national hailing from California, and her father, Amer, is a Saudi Arabian national who went to college in the United States and married her mother in 1984. She has dual US-Saudi citizenship because her father was born in Saudi Arabia.
She graduated from Escondido High School, in Escondido, in 2010. She competed for the school in cross country running.
She then attended Pepperdine University, a Christian university in Los Angeles County, California, near Malibu, where she earned a B.A. in studio arts, having won the Rex Hamilton Memorial Art Scholarship. Attar was one of two athletes from Pepperdine to be selected to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics, along with Roxanne Barker, who was on the South African team. She ran in two college meets for Pepperdine in March 2012, finishing 12th in a 1,500-meter heat in the Cal State Fullerton Ben Brown Invitational in 5:30.51, and 29th in the 3,000 meters in the Spring Break Invitational in 11:37.41.
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