Farida Osman

Farida Hisham Osman is an Egyptian swimmer specialising in butterfly and freestyle, born in Indianapolis, United States, on 18 January 1995 and raised in Cairo. ^{1 2} She has won three World Championship bronze medals in the 50 m butterfly and holds the African records in the butterfly events; she is described as the fastest female swimmer in Egypt and Africa. ¹

Osman was born in Indianapolis to two dentists, Hisham Osman and Randa Elsalawy, and raised in Cairo. She began swimming at the age of five at the Gezira Sporting Club alongside her brother Ahmed, attended French schools in Cairo and the Cairo American College, and after a spell in synchronised swimming returned to racing at eleven, winning every national 50 m and 100 m freestyle and butterfly title for her age. ¹ At twelve she was the youngest member of Egypt's team at the 2007 Pan Arab Games in Cairo and broke the Arab record in the 50 m butterfly, the youngest Egyptian and Arab swimmer to win the event. ¹

Osman became world junior champion in the 50 m butterfly at Lima in 2011, winning in a championship record of 26.69. ¹ She raced at the London 2012 Olympics, and at the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona became the first Egyptian ever to reach a World Championships final, finishing seventh in the 50 m butterfly after setting an African record of 26.12 in the semi-finals. ¹ Swimming for the University of California, Berkeley under coach Teri McKeever, she won NCAA titles in 2017. ¹ Her three senior world bronze medals in the 50 m butterfly came at Budapest 2017 — where her 25.39 was another African record — Gwangju 2019 and Doha 2024; she also competed at the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympics. ¹

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