This is the refugee team that will compete in the Paris Games

Thirty-six athletes from eleven countries, welcomed by another fifteen, will form the Olympic Refugee Team in Paris 2024 Olympic Gamesof which athletes from Iran are almost half, fifteen of them.

Among them Afghan B-girl (breaking) Manizha Talashwhich found a welcome in Spain (Huesca).

there is twelve sports represented in the group, with athletics (7), judo (6) and taekwondo (5) leading the way.

Completing the list are canoeing (4), swimming (2), cycling (2), boxing (2), shooting (2), wrestling (2), weightlifting (2), breaking and badminton.

The head of mission of the Paris 2024 Olympic Refugee Team, the Afghan cyclist Masomah Ali Zadaand the South Sudanese athlete Yiech Pur BielIOC member and member of the first refugee team in Rio 2016, introduced the team.

The president of the IOC, the German Thomas Bachsaid that by participating in the Olympic Games, refugees would “demonstrate the human potential for resilience and excellence.”

“This will send a message of hope to more than 100 million displaced people around the world. At the same time, they will make billions of people around the world aware of the scale of the refugee crisis,” he added.

Through its Olympic Solidarity program, the IOC provided scholarships for the Paris Games 75 refugee athletesprecedents from 12 countries, residents in 24 host countries and representatives of 14 sports.

The 36 were selected They have now passed their respective federation’s qualification tournaments or have been deemed athletic enough to compete in the Games.

The team members are as follows:

• Adnan Khankan, judo. Syrian, refugee in Germany.
• Alaa Maso, swimming. Syrian, refugee in Germany.
• Amir Ansari, cycling. Iranian, refugee in Sweden.
• Amir Rezanejad Hassanjani, slalom canoeing. Iranian, refugee in Germany.
• Arab Sibghatullah, Jew. Afghan, refugee in Germany.
• Cindy Ngamba, boxing. Cameroonian, refugee in the United Kingdom.
• Dina Pouryounes Langeroudi, taekwondo. Iranian, refugee in the Netherlands.
• Dorian Keletela, athletics. Congolese, refugee in France.
• Dorsa Yavarifaya, badminton. Iranian, refugee in the United Kingdom.
• Eyeru Gebru, road cycling. Ethiopian, refugee in France.
• Farida Abagore, athletics. Ethiopian, refugee in France.
• Farzad Mansouri, taekwondo. Afghan, refugee in the United Kingdom.
• Fernando Dayan Jorge Enríquez, sprint canoeing. Cuban, refugee in the United States.
• Francisco Edilio Centeno, shot. Venezuelan, refugee in Mexico.
• Hadi Tiranalipour, taekwondo. Iranian, refugee in Italy.
• Iman Mahdavi, fight back. Iran, refugee in Italy.
• Jamal Abdelmaji, athletics. Sudanese, refugee in Israel.
• Jamal Valizadeh, Greco-Roman wrestling. Iranian, refugee in France.
• Kasra Mehdipournejad, taekwondo. Iranian, refugee in Germany.
• Luna Solomon, shot. Eritrea, refugee in Switzerland.
• Mahboubeh Barbari Yharfi, Jew. Iranian, refugee in Germany.
• Manizha Talash, broken. Afghan, refugee in Spain.
• Matin Balsini, swimming. Iranian, refugee in the United Kingdom.
• Mohammad Amin Alsalami, athletics. Syrian, refugee in Germany.
• Mohammad Rashnonezhad, Jew. Iranian, refugee in the Netherlands.
• Muna Dahouk, Jew. Syria, refugee in the Netherlands.
• Musa Suliman, athletics. Sudan, refugee in Switzerland.
• Nigara Shaheen, judo. Afghan, refugee in Canada.
• Omid Ahmadisafa, boxing. Iranian, refugee in Germany.
• Perina Lokure Nakang, athletics. South Sudanese, refugees in Kenya.
• Ramiro Mora, weightlifting. Cuban, refugee in the United Kingdom.
• Saeid Fazloula, sprint canoeing. Iranian, refugee in Germany.
• Saman Soltani, sprint canoeing. Iranian, refugee in Austria.
• Tachlowini Gabryesos, athletics. Eritrea, refugee in Israel.
• Yahya Al Ghotany, taekwondo. Syria, refugees in Jordan.
• Yekta Jamali Galeh, weightlifting. Iranian, refugee in Germany.