Baraah Awadallah, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Jordanian middle distance runner
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Place of Birth: Irbid, Irbid Governorate, Jordan
About Baraah Awadallah
- Baraah Awadallah Marouane (Arabic: ???? ??? ???? ??????; born December 21, 1991 in Irbid) is a Jordanian middle distance runner.
- Awadallah represented Jordan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's 800 metres.
- She ran in the first heat of the event, against six other athletes, including Russia's Svetlana Klyuka, who nearly missed out of the medal podium in the final.
- She finished the race in last place by fifteen seconds behind Australia's Madeleine Pape, with her personal and seasonal best time of 2:18.41.
- Awadallah, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed thirty-seventh overall, and was ranked farther below three mandatory slots for the next round.
- She was eventually upgraded to a higher overall position, when Croatia's Vanja Perišic had been disqualified for failing the doping test.
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