Zainab Bakkour (; born March 29, 1978, in Damascus) is a retired Syrian long-distance runner. She represented her nation Syria at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also ran her own personal best and a national record of 17:03.60 in the women's 5000 metres at the 2000 Syrian Athletics Championships in Damascus. She was the best Syrian and Arab long-distance runner in 1990s.
Bakkour qualified as a lone female athlete for the Syrian squad in the women's 5000 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by granting a tripartite invitation from the Syrian Olympic Committee and the IAAF. She ran a seasonal best of 17:18.66 to obtain an eighteenth spot in a field of twenty registered athletes, but did not advance further in the final, trailing behind the leader Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia by a wide, two-minute gap.
Personal bests 800 m – 2:15.67 (Beirut 1999) 1500 m – 4:45.10 (Beirut 1999) 5000 m – 17:03.60 NR (Damascus 2000) 10,000 – 36:11.94 NR (Bangkok 1998)
Competition record Representing 1993Arab ChampionshipsLatakia, Syria3rd1500 m4:45.42nd3000 m10:54.71996Arab Junior ChampionshipsLatakia, Syria2nd10,000 m41:04.421998Arab ChampionshipsDamascus, Syria1st5000 m17:52.91st10,000 m37:21.11stHalf Marathon 1:27:1Asian GamesBangkok, Thailand9th5000 m17:56.637th10,000 m36:11.941999Arab ChampionshipsBeirut, Lebanon1st800 m2:15.671st1500 m4:45.11st5000 m17:37.851st10,000 m38:29.031stHalf Marathon 1:31:46Pan Arab GamesAmman, Jordan3rdHalf Marathon 1:18:112001Arab ChampionshipsDamascus, Syria2nd5000 m17:21.92nd10,000 m36:23.882003Arab ChampionshipsAmman, Jordan2nd10,000 m36:39.22ndHalf Marathon 1:24:582004Olympic GamesAthens, Greece39th (q)5000 m17:18.66
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