Fariba Rezayee (Dari: فریبا رضایی), (born September 3, 1985) is a Hazara judoka, who is perhaps best known as one of the first two women athletes from Afghanistan to compete in the Summer Olympics.
Fariba is the younger sister of Shaima Rezayee, a music TV presenter who was killed in 2005 in her hometown Kabul.
[10] In a 2024 interview, she recalled, “When I first came to Canada, I got a bicycle and went to Stanley Park and rode very fast and I said, ‘Who says heaven doesn’t exist?’ I just wanted to have my freedom and be able to breathe and live.
"[10] Rezayee represented Afghanistan in the middleweight class (70 kg) event of judo in the 2004 Summer Olympics, Athens.
In her first-round match, Rezayee faced Spaniard Cecilia Blanco and lost the bout without earning a single point.