The Refugee Athletics Team (ART) will compete at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo from August 17 to 25, 2025, with six athletes carrying the hopes of millions of displaced people worldwide.
The ART team includes three women and three men, each with a story of resilience and determination. Among the women, Farida Abaroge (5,000m), an Ethiopian refugee residing in France, and Perina Lokure Nakang (800m), based in Kenya, will take to the starting line.
Abaroge fled Ethiopia in 2016 and competed at the Paris 2024 Olympics, while Nakang returns after a challenging year marked by illness and social upheaval.
On the men’s side, 21-year-old Musa Suliman, a Sudanese refugee living in Switzerland, will run the 800m. He will be joined by Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed (5,000m), a former Sudanese refugee now living in Israel. Marathoners Omar Hassan, based in Denmark, and Emmanuel Kiruhura Ntagunga, a Congolese refugee living in Norway, complete the team.
Their participation is made possible through scholarships from the Olympic Refuge Foundation, in partnership with World Athletics, underscoring the power of sport to bring hope to marginalized populations.
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