Azad Al-Barazi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Azad Al-Barazi

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1988

Place of Birth: Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: United States, Syria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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Azad Al-Barazi (Arabic: ???? ????????; born January 4, 1988 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) is an American-Syrian swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.
Al-Barazi holds a dual citizenship between his parents' nation Syria and the United States, where he is resides.Al-Barazi qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke, as a member of the Syrian team, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
He received a Universality place by posting a personal best of 1:00.35 from the AT&T Winter National Championships in Atlanta, Georgia.
He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including four-time Olympians Malick Fall of Senegal and Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson of Iceland.
He touched out European junior champion Danila Artiomov of Moldova to take a seventh spot by 0.09 of a second in 1:00.48.
Al-Barazi failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-first overall on the first day of preliminaries.Al-Barazi has also been a Los Angeles County Lifeguard since 2007 and has competed in several international lifeguard competitions for the United States.
He attended the University of Hawai?i at Manoa, and earned a bachelor's degree in kinesiology and a minor in sports nutrition.
Al-Barazi later became a varsity swimmer for the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, before he graduated with honors in 2010.Al-Barazi is a full-time member of the Trojans Swim Club at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, under his personal coach Dave Salo.