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| Nationality | Moroccan | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 March 1996 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Paralympic athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Disability class | F41 | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | shot put discus throw | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Friends Club | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Zedmout Aziz Lakhdar Abdelouaha | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hayat El Garaa (born 2 March 1996) is a Moroccan para-athlete who specializes in throwing events. She represented Morocco at the Paralympic Games.
El Garaa represented Morocco in the women's shot put F41 event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and finished in seventh place with a throw of 6.97 metres. She again represented Morocco in the women's discus throw F41 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won a bronze medal. [1]
Her sisters Najat and Laila are both Paralympic medalists. [2]
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Laila El Garaa is a Paralympian athlete from Morocco competing mainly in category F40 shot put events.
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