For more than 55 years BP has been an energy partner to Egypt, and today our partnership extends to the Egyptian Paralympics committee
Ayatallah Ayman Abbas
Egypt’s first female swimmer in the Paralympics
Aya Ayman Abbas is an Egyptian Paralympic swimming champion, who received the Egypt Cup three times. The 17-year-old is in Grade 12, doing her IGCSE, and became the first female Egyptian swimmer in the Paralympics when she participated in Rio 2016.
In 2017, she participated in the Berlin tournament, where she won a silver medal in the 50m freestyle and bronze medals in the 100m and 400m freestyle events.
Aya won a silver medal in the 100m freestyle in the World Para Swimming Championships in Mexico and a medal in the 400m freestyle. In winning these medals, Aya achieved a new national record as the first female Egyptian and/or African swimmer to be placed in these two events since 1910.
In addition, in 2015, Aya participated in the Polish championship, where she won gold and silver medals in the 100m freestyle and 400m freestyle, respectively, qualifying for Brazil’s 2016 Paralympics. At the Spanish championship in 2015, she won two golds and a silver in the freestyle.
Watch Aya’s award-winning video
BP’s Rise Paralympics movie, which was developed for our Paralympics Brand Ambassador Aya Abbas, has won a Golden Award at the Brand Film Festival London 2019.