Rania Elwani

{{Infobox swimmer

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| fullname = Rania Amr Mostafa Elwani
رانیا عمرو مصطفي علواني

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| nationality = {{EGY}}

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| club = Al Ahly SC

| collegeteam = SMU Mustangs (USA)

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|10|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Giza, Egypt

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| height = 1.78 m

| weight = 75 kg

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Dr. Rania Elwani ({{langx|arz|رانيا علوانى}}; born 14 October 1977)[http://www.olympic.org/dr-rania-elwani Elwani's bio page] from the website of the International Olympic Committee; retrieved 2011-07-30. is an Egyptian Olympic and former African Record holding swimmer. She swam for Egypt at 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics.

Education

She attended and swam for the USA's Southern Methodist University from 1997 to 1999. She later obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Misr University for Science and Technology in 2004, and a Master of Obstetrics and Gynaecology from Ain Shams University in 2014. She also had a Sports Management Diploma from the International Centre for Sports Studies, Switzerland in September 2009, and a Healthcare and Hospital Management Diploma from the American University in Cairo in 2015.{{cite web |url=https://www.almentor.net/en/mentor/Rania-Elwani# |title=Rania Elwani |website=almentor.net }}

Career

During her studies at Southern Methodist University, she swam for the Mustangs in the 50m and 100m freestyle events. Her best times of 22.44 seconds in 1998 and 48.58 seconds in 1999 are the 6th and 5th all-time best records for the Mustangs Swimming team as of January 2025.{{cite web|title=Rania Elwani|url=https://smumustangs.com/documents/2024/12/7/All-Time_Top_10_times.pdf?path=wswim|publisher=Southern Methodist University Mustangs All time Top 10|accessdate=January 16, 2025}}

In 2004, she became a member of the International Olympic Committee. In 2010, she became a member of the Athlete Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).[http://www.wada-ama.org/About-WADA/Governance/Athlete-Committee/ Athlete Committee page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091115142127/http://www.wada-ama.org/About-WADA/Governance/Athlete-Committee/ |date=15 November 2009 }} from the WADA website; retrieved 2011-07-30.

She is a member of the 'Champions for Peace' club, a group of more than 90 famous elite created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization placed under the High Patronage of H.S.H Prince Albert II. This group of top level champions, wish to make sport a tool for dialogue and social cohesion.{{cite web |url=http://www.peace-sport.org/our-champions-of-peace/ |title=The Champions for Peace |website=peace-sport.org }}

Awards

{{flagicon|Egypt}} Order of Merit of First Class for Sports
{{flagicon|Egypt}} Egypt's Athlete of the year: 1991–1998
Arab Athlete of the Games, Jordan: 1999
The Arab Sports Federations Order of Merit for Sport: 1997
{{flagicon|UAE}} The Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Award for Sports Excellence: 2014
The International Fairplay Award, Italy: 2010

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