{"id":149077,"date":"2015-08-08T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=149077"},"modified":"2015-08-08T02:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T09:59:00","slug":"10-year-old-alzain-tareq-enjoying-world-championship-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/10-year-old-alzain-tareq-enjoying-world-championship-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"10-Year-Old Alzain Tareq Enjoying World Championship Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alzain Tareq<\/strong> finished dead last in the women\u2019s 50 butterfly at the FINA world championships with a 41.13, and 105th out of 113 in the 50 free with a 35.78. And yet, she was arguably more popular than <strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong> among reporters in the mixed zone in the Kazan Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the native of Bahrain is just 10 years old, by far the youngest swimmer in the competition. She\u2019s here as part of FINA\u2019s policy which gives swimmers in developing countries the opportunity to experience racing at the highest level. These athletes don\u2019t have to meet qualifying times set by FINA.<\/p>\n<p>Alzain is easy to spot, despite being more than a foot shorter than her fellow swimmers. She wore a hot pink swimsuit and goggles with pink mirrored lenses and pink straps. Her swim cap bulged over her large bun of hair inside.<\/p>\n<p>With nearly two dozen microphones and tape recorders mere inches from her face, she was soft-spoken and shy, but definitely showed her joy over swimming in the pool with some of her idols. She mentioned <strong>Missy Franklin<\/strong> and <strong>Sarah Sjostrom<\/strong> as two people she wanted to meet, and her wish was fulfilled during her time in Kazan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took a picture with (Franklin),\u201d Alzain said, wrapped in her tiny jacket. 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No such limits exist at the FINA world championships, with a few 12-year-olds joining Alzain in the meet in various events. That means Alzain won\u2019t be able to travel to Rio next year for the Olympics, but she could take the trip to Budapest for the 2017 world championships for another opportunity to meet her heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Like her Franklin and Sjostrom, Alzain wanted to get best times at the meet, something that is easier to do at 10 years old. She didn\u2019t do that in the 50 butterfly, but came back the following day to drop about three seconds off her personal best in the 50 free. Alzain is at the meet with her father, who she said would be happy that she made a big time drop in sprint freestyle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great feeling for me,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel so happy now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alzain Tareq finished dead last in the women\u2019s 50 butterfly at the FINA world championships with a 41.13, and 105th out of 113 in the 50 free with a 35.78.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":149083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[53613,53615,53614,25313,16544,25031,39823,25136,32196,142],"class_list":["post-149077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-2015-fiina-world-championships","tag-alzain-tareq","tag-bahrain","tag-fina-world-aquatics-championships","tag-fina-world-swimming-championships","tag-katie-ledecky","tag-kazan-arena","tag-missy-franklin","tag-sarah-sjostrom","tag-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>10-Year-Old Alzain Tareq Enjoying World Championship Experience<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Alzain Tareq is just 10 years old, and competing at the FINA world championships. 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