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8. Ghada Shouaa

Ghada Shouaa is a world-class Syrian athlete. She won Syria’s first and only gold medal in the Heptathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. Shouaa’s first sport was basketball. She played on the Syrian national team for a few years, but then decided to compete in athletics. Shouaa, who’s won gold at the World and Asian Championships, attempted to defend her Olympic title in Sydney in 2000, but became injured after the first event. This disappointment led her to retire from athletics. Shouaa traveled to Syria in 2014 to support the Syrian Arab Army.

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