Zainab Bakkour

Zainab Bakkour (زينب بكور; 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)