Full name Zainab Bakkour Sport Athletics Nationality Syria | Height 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) Name Zainab Bakkour Weight 50 kg (110 lb) | |
Personal best(s) 5000 m: 17:03.60 | ||
Zainab Bakkour (Arabic: زينب بكور; born March 29, 1978 in Damascus) is a retired Syrian long-distance runner. She represented her nation Syria at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also ran her own personal best and a national record of 17:03.60 in the women's 5000 metres at the 2000 Syrian Athletics Championships in Damascus.
Bakkour qualified as a lone female athlete for the Syrian squad in the women's 5000 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by granting a tripartite invitation from the Syrian Olympic Committee and the IAAF. She ran a seasonal best of 17:18.66 to obtain an eighteenth spot in a field of twenty registered athletes, but did not advance further in the final, trailing behind the leader Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia by a wide, two-minute gap.