Masomah Ali Zada

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Masomah Ali Zada Road cycling
Masomah Ali Zada ​​on Mont Ventoux (2020)
Masomah Ali Zada ​​on Mont Ventoux (2020)
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birth date March 11, 1996
nation AfghanistanAfghanistan Afghanistan / Refugee Olympic Team
Refugee Olympic TeamRefugee Olympic Team 
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Last updated: June 15, 2021

Masomah Ali Zada (also Alizada ) (born March 11, 1996 in Kabul ) is an Afghan cyclist . In 2021 she was nominated for the Refugee Olympic Team to take part in the Olympic Games in Tokyo .

Career

Masomah Ali Zada ​​was born in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, but spent her early years in exile in Iran . She belongs to the Hazara minority. After returning to Kabul, she studied sports and worked as a sports teacher. Despite the rejection of conservative circles, she began to ride with a group of other young women wheel, and was in the Radnationalmannschaft added. In 2014 she started at the Asian Championships in the junior road race, but could not finish it.

The training in Kabul took place under difficult conditions as the women were verbally abused or pelted with stones or rubbish. In 2013, a driver was deliberately hit and injured. Therefore, the athletes finally moved their training early in the morning or late in the evening. In 2016, the TV channel Arte published the documentary Les Petites Reines de Kaboul (racing bike instead of burqa) about the group of women athletes around Masomah Ali Zada.

In 2016, the pressure on Ali Zada ​​became so strong that she and her family - parents, sister and three brothers - left Afghanistan and applied for asylum in France. There she took up a degree in civil engineering at the University of Lille , where she lives with her sister. In 2020 she received a Refugee Athlete Scholarship . In June 2021 she was nominated for the Refugee Olympic Team . In preparation for the games in which she will start in the individual time trial , she trained at the World Cycling Center in Aigle, Switzerland .

Web links

Commons : Masomah Ali Zada  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Masomah Ali Zada. In: olympics.com. September 18, 2020, accessed June 16, 2021 .
  2. ↑ a b Afghanistan: The female cyclists of Kabul. In: zeit.de . March 17, 2015, accessed October 8, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Women's cycling in Afghanistan: headscarf and jersey. In: Spiegel Online photo gallery (5). March 13, 2015, accessed October 8, 2016 .
  4. ↑ ByKirsten Frattini: Masomah Ali Zada ​​named to IOC Refugee Olympic Team bound for Tokyo. In: cyclingnews.com. June 8, 2021, accessed June 27, 2021 .
  5. ^ IOC announces list of Refugee Athlete Scholarship Holders aiming to be part of IOC Refugee Olympic Team Tokyo 2020. In: International Olympic Committee. June 16, 2021, accessed June 16, 2021 .
  6. ↑ Masomah Alizada: The female Afghan cyclist competing on the Olympic refugee team. In: InfoMigrants. June 11, 2021, accessed June 16, 2021 .
  7. ^ Refugee Olympic Team. In: International Olympic Committee. June 8, 2021, accessed June 16, 2021 .
  8. ^ Frédéric Van de Ponseele: JO: la cycliste Masomah Ali Zada, réfugiée afghane basée à Lille, ira bien à Tokyo. In: leparisien.fr. June 8, 2021, accessed June 16, 2021 (French).
  9. ^ Ali Zada, la voix des femmes afghanes aux JO de Tokyo. In: Magcentre. June 9, 2021, accessed June 16, 2021 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Ali Zada, Masomah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alizada, Masomah (alternate spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan cyclist
BIRTH DATE March 11, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabul