Alzain Tareq

Alzain Tareq (2005) is a swimmer from Bahrain.

Biography

Born in Bahrain in 2005, Tarqe is the youngest athlete in history to debut at the world swimming, taking part in the World Swimming Championships in 2015 at ten years of age.

Tareq is the daughter of Tareq Salem Juma, a professional swimmer from Bahrain.

Tareq qualified for the World Cup in Kazan with the best time of Bahrain in the 50 butterfly, beating swimmers much older than her. His participation in the competitions in Kazan was made possible thanks to a legislative vacuum in the FINA rules, the FINA, the association of national federations that organized the World Swimming Championships: FINA does not provide for a minimum age for participation its competitions, but leaves it to the federations of each country to regulate as they see fit (except for diving, for which the minimum age is 14 years). For example, the European Swimming League (LEN), which organizes the European Swimming, allows participation in its competitions only swimmers who have completed 14 years.

And the Swimming Federation of Bahrain has enabled the participation of Tareq the World Championships in Kazan.

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