 Sara Gadalla Gubara in 1972 | |
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| Native name | سارة جاد الله جبارة |
| Birth name | Sara Gadalla Gubara Al-Faki Ibrahim |
| Born | 23 April 1956 Helat Hamd, Khartoum Bahri, Sudan |
| Education | Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema |
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| Sport | |
| Country | Sudan |
| Sport | Marathon swimming Long-distance swimming |
| Coached by | Bayoumi Mohammed Salem |
Sara Gadallah Gubara Al-Faki Ibrahim (Arabic: سارة جاد الله جبارة, romanized: Sāra Jādallah Jubāra; born 23 April 1956) is a Sudanese competition swimmer and film director. She was the first Sudanese woman to participate in international swimming competitions, such as the Capri International long-distance swimming race in Italy, and the first Sudanese woman to swim the English Channel to France, despite having contracted polio in childhood. Further to her lifelong activity as a sportswoman, she became noted as a pioneering female filmmaker in her country, first assisting her father, Gadalla Gubara, and later directing her own films.