Roda Ali Wais

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Roda Ali Wais
Personal information
Born (1984-04-14) 14 April 1984 (age 41)
Height5 ft 2 in (157 cm)
Weight115 lb (52 kg)
Sport
CountryFlag of Djibouti.svg  Djibouti
Sport Athletics
Event 800m

Roda Ali Wais (Somali : Rooda Cali Wacays; born 14 April 1984) is a middle-distance athlete who competed for Djibouti before defecting to Australia. [1]

Ali Wais was only sixteen and the first ever Djiboutian female to represent her country in the Olympics [2] when she competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney, she entered the 800 metres she came last in heat so didn't qualify for the next round. [3] After the race, Ali Wais defected to Australia with the help of a Somali Australian, where she married an Australian and had children. She did not compete for Djibouti again. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "The Long Run". thebigroundtable.com. The Big Roundtable. Archived from the original on 7 October 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "First female competitors at the Olympics by country". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  3. ↑ Sports Reference Profile


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