Alia Issa

Alia Issa
Born (2001-01-04) 4 January 2001 (age 23)
Greece
NationalityRefugee
Known formember of the Refugee Paralympic Team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Alia Issa (born 4 January 2001) is one of the six refugees in the Refugee Paralympic Team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics who competed at the delayed Tokyo Paralympics.[1] Issa is based in Athens. She was the first woman parathlete to represent refugees when she competed in the club throw. The day before the opening ceremony it was decided that there would be two flag carriers and that they would be Issa and Abbas Karimi.[2] Issa came eighth in the club throw.

  1. ^ "Athletics: ISSA Alia". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Issa and Karimi named Tokyo 2020 flagbearers for Refugee Paralympic Team". Inside the Games. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.