Samia Yusuf Omar or Samiyo Omar (Somali: Saamiya Yuusuf Cumar; Arabic: سامية يوسف عمر; 25 March 1991 – April 2012) was a sprinter from Somalia. She was one of two Somali athletes who competed for their nation at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Omar had grown up in Mogadishu, and trained there during the Somali Civil War despite receiving harassment from local militia groups. Her story at the Olympics was covered by the media, and her performance was well received by the crowd.
Following the Games, she hid away from athletics following threats by militant group Al-Shabaab. She ended up in a Hizbul-Islam displacement camp, and in pursuit of competing at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she crossed the border to Ethiopia looking for a safe place to train. She was trafficked north into Libya, where she was imprisoned. During the 2012 Games, it was revealed that Omar had drowned off the coast of Libya while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy.
SamiaYusufOmar or Samiyo Omar (Somali: Saamiya Yuusuf Cumar; Arabic: سامية يوسف عمر; 25 March 1991 – April 2012) was a sprinter from Somalia. She was...
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Summer Olympics received a great deal of international media attention. SamiaYusufOmar was a 16 year old sprinter, who had trained at the Mogadishu Stadium...
2017. Samia Badih (9 November 2010). "Sami Yusuf releases new album in Dubai". Retrieved 14 October 2017. David Tusing (5 March 2013). "Sami Yusuf launches...
the coast of Libya. Omar's life story was later dramatised as the graphic novel An Olympic Dream: The story of SamiaYusufOmar by German artist Reinhard...
Jewish Boxer Harry Haft. Kleist's graphic novel about the Somali runner SamiaYusufOmar was published in 2015 under the title "Der Traum von Olympia" (The...
access for the scouts and because athletes were fleeing the fighting. SamiaYusufOmar, who represented the national at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing...
actress, cancer. Maïté Nahyr, 64, South African-born Belgian actress. SamiaYusufOmar, 21, Somali Olympic runner, drowning. (death announced on this date)...
Turkey, and King Abdullah II of Jordan. The Woman of the Year was President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania and the Man of the Year was Uğur Şahin of Germany...
also served as a coach for the late Somalian middle-distance athlete SamiaYusufOmar. "African Championships". "Ethiopian Atheltics Coaches- Woldemeskel...
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Kleist March 2014 ISBN 978-1906838775 An Olympic Dream: The Story of SamiaYusufOmar Reinhard Kleist March 2016 ISBN 978-1910593097 Agatha: The Real Life...
athletes overall and was 8.09 seconds faster than the slowest athlete, SamiaYusufOmar. Feraez was 1.36 seconds behind the fastest athlete and 0.48 seconds...
International as a full member at the SI's spring congress on 4–5 February 2013. Samia Suluhu Hassan is the current Chairperson of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi following...
(1972). Arab Socialism. New York: Barnes and Noble. pp. 23–29. A.Hanna, Samia; H.Gardner, George (1969). Arab Socialism. A documentary survey. Leiden:...
leader of government business, first Prime Minister, first President MP) Samia Nkrumah (daughter, MP, 2008–2012, chairman of political party) Sekou Nkrumah...
directly by the foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, that Riyadh was disengaging. Samia Nakhoul, Aziz El Yaakoubi (24 May 2023). "Saudi embrace of Assad sends strong...
Jakaya Kikwete, President (2005–2015) John Magufuli, President (2015–2021) Samia Suluhu Hassan, President (2021–present) Prime ministers (complete list)...
Aysel Çelikel: First female to become a Dean in a Faculty of Law in Turkey Samia Akbulut: First female to serve as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of...
media outlets reported that Bouazizi had a university degree, his sister, Samia Bouazizi, stated that he had never graduated from high school, but that...
Khaleej Times, assistant editor of Dawn, and founder-editor of The Agatya Samia Zaman, Editor and CEO of the television channel Ekattor TV Tasmima Hossain...
Financial Times Ltd. Archived from the original on 2022-12-10. Nakhoul, Samia (23 July 2020). "Lebanese central bank governor inflated assets as liabilities...
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