Jayda Sharaf

Jayda Sharaf
Personal information
NationalityEgyptian
Born (2001-05-17) 17 May 2001 (age 23)
Cairo, Egypt
Sport
Country Egypt
SportArtistic swimming

Jayda Sharaf (Arabic: جيداء شرف, born 17 May 2001) is an Egyptian artistic swimmer. She represented Egypt at the 2020 Summer Olympics, held July–August 2021 in Tokyo.[1]

Life

She was born in Cairo, Egypt. She started Artistic Swimming at the age of 9 1/5, she has represented Egypt in the Fina World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships 2018 Budapest, Hungary, and the 18th FINA World Championships 2019 in Gwangju, South Korea.[2]

Previously, Jayda moved with her family for 1 year and a half to South Africa, 2013 - 2014, where she was the South African Champion in her age class and was selected to represent the Under 15 national team in the Comen Cup 2014, Alexandroupolis [3] before returning to train in Egypt.

She qualified in the women's team event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Artistic Swimming - SHARAF Jayda". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Jayda SHARAF | Results | FINA Official". FINA.org. Fédération Internationale de Natation. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  3. ^ Andriaanse, Shaun. "Team Announcement: Mediterranean Synchronised Swimming Cup 2014, Greece, 10-13 September 2014" (PDF). Swimsa.org. Swimming South Africa. Retrieved 23 July 2021.


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