Key facts
- Full name
- Farida Hisham Osman
- National team
- Egypt
- Born
- ( 1995-01-18 ) 18 January 1995 (age 31) , Indianapolis, Indiana , United States
- Height
- 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
- Weight
- 70 kg (154 lb)
- Sport
- Swimming
- Strokes
- Butterfly , freestyle
- Club
- Gezira Sporting Club
- College team
- University of California, Berkeley
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Indianapolis
- Occupation
- swimmer
- Educated at
- Lycée Français du Caire
- Languages spoken
- Egyptian Arabic
- Native language
- Egyptian Arabic
- Award
- BBC 100 Women
- Sport
- competitive swimming
- Image
- Farida mauritius 003.jpg
- Height
- 1.73
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- Commons category
- Farida Osman
- name in native language
- فريدة عثمان
- date of birth
- 1995-01-18
- birth name
- فريدة هشام احمد عثمان
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Encyclopedic overview
Farida Hisham Osman (Arabic: فريدة هشام عثمان; born 18 January 1995) is an Egyptian competitive swimmer who specializes in butterfly and freestyle events. She is an All-Africa Games gold medalist and Egyptian national champion and record-holder. Osman is the fastest female swimmer in Egypt and Africa, she is currently coached by Teri McKeever. Osman holds the senior national records for all the butterfly, freestyle and backstroke events, as well as African records in the 50m and 100m butterfly.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Farida Osman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.