Margret Hassan

Margret Hassan
Margret Hassan at the 2016 Olympic Games
Full name	Margret Rumat Rumar Hassan
nation	South Sudan
birthday	August 12, 1997
place of birth	Wau ,  Sudan
size	160 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	200 m: 26.99 s
Trainer	Joseph Ramadan Jirvasio
status	active

Margret Rumat Rumar Hassan (born August 12, 1997 in Wau , Sudan ) is a South Sudanese sprinter .

Career

Because of the civil war in Sudan , Hassan and her family left their hometown of Wau .

Hassan first started playing football but switched to athletics in 2012 . At the urging of a friend, she began to practice athletics professionally.

For the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games , Hassan was selected as an independent Olympic participant and started over 400 meters. At the opening ceremony she was the flag bearer.

At the 2016 African Athletics Championships , she ran over 200 meters for a time of 27.61 s.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she was eliminated in the preliminary run with a new personal best of 26.99 s in the 200 m competition and was 71st overall.

Web links

• Margret Hassan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Margret Hassan ( English ) Archived from the original on September 19, 2016.
2. ^ ^{A b} South Sudan's historic Olympic team provides a glimmer of hope amid the threat of civil war. In: Quartz . Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Margret Hassan ( English ) Organizing Committee of the Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016. Retrieved on August 15, 2016.
4. ↑ ^{a b} From war zone to international spotlight - Olympic News (English) . In: International Olympic Committee , October 19, 2016. 
5. ^ Anthony Stewart: Selection issues threaten to mar South Sudan's Olympics debut (English) . In: ABC News , July 29, 2016. 
6. ↑ Women's 200m - Standings ( English ) Archived from the original on 18 August 2016th