Hend Zaza
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| Full name | Hend Abdul Rauf Zaza | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Syrian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 January 2009 Hama, Syria | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Syria | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Table tennis | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Al-Muhafaza Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hend Zaza (Arabic: هند ظاظا; born 1 January 2009) is a Syrian table tennis player. She qualified to play in the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021 in Tokyo, through the West Asia Olympic qualifying tournament held in Jordan in 2020.[1][2][3] At the age of 12, she was the youngest person to compete in Olympic table tennis, and the fifth-youngest person to compete in the modern Olympics.[4] She was the youngest competitor at the 2020 games,[1] and the youngest Olympic competitor since Beatrice Huștiu, a Romanian figure-skater who competed in 1968.[2]
Zaza was born on 1 January 2009 in Hama, Syria,[4][5] and started to play table tennis in 2014. In 2016, she attended an International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) "Hopes Week and Challenge" event in Qatar with her older brother, and her potential was noticed. She plays for the Al-Muhafaza Table Tennis Club in Damascus and has won national titles at all levels: hopes, cadets, junior and senior.[4]