An 11-year-old Syrian table tennis player is set to become one of the youngest Olympians in history.
Hend Zaza, listed with a Jan. 1, 2009 birthdate by the International Table Tennis Federation, qualified for the Tokyo Games by winning the West Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament in Jordan last week, according to the federation and Syria’s Olympic Committee.
Table tennis is one of the Olympic sports that does not have an age minimum.
Zaza is in line to become the fifth-youngest known Olympic competitor in history and the youngest since Romanian figure skater Beatrice Hustiu in 1968, according to the OlyMADMen.