Kenyan para-rower athlete Asiya Mohammed warms up in her boat during a training session at Tudor Water Sports Hotel in Mombasa, Kenya on July 27, 2021 ahead of the preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. – 29-year-old Asiya Mohammed is a para-rower athlete who will become the first Kenyan woman ever to attend an Olympics Game in the modality of rowing after earning a ticket for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Initially a para-tennis player at international level, Asiya Mohammed, who has overcome many challenges as a Kenyan physically disabled woman and has experienced lack of funding and support, is living and training in a Hotel complex with her team and focused now on intense training in preparation for the Paralympic Games, where she will arrive as a medal contender, after qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games only two years after developing interest in the sport of rowing. (Photo by LUIS TATO / AFP)
