Hanna Barakat
Personal information | |
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Birth name | Hanna Barakat |
Nationality | Palestine |
Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1] | 1 September 1999
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | 100 metres |
Hanna Barakat (Arabic: هناء بركات; born September 1, 1999) is a Los Angeles-born[1] Palestinian-American runner. Barakat is a student-athlete at Brown University.
Her father Mohammed Barakat competed for the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the sport of field hockey.[2][3][4]
She was born in Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1] Her brother Adam has played American football for Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.[1]
She competed in track & field at Flintridge Preparatory School in California.[5]
The runner was one of five Palestinians representing the country at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She competed in the where she set the national record running a time of 12.16 seconds. Barakat also holds the Palestinian national record in the 400-meter sprint and 200-meter sprint. [2][3]
References[]
- ^ a b c d "Athletics BARAKAT Hanna - Tokyo 2020 Olympics".
- ^ a b "Athletics BARAKAT Hanna - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ a b "Palestinian Olympians from Gaza, Canada, US, Jerusalem compete in Tokyo". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
- ^ "Hanna Barakat - Women's Track & Field". Brown University Athletics. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
- ^ "Hanna Barakat - Women's Track & Field".
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