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Place of Birth: Mogadishu, Somalia
Date of Birth: 31 December, 1979
Ethnicity: * father – Italian * mother – Somali
Zahra Bani is a Somali-Italian javelin thrower.
She was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, to an Italian father and a Somali mother. Her father, Giuseppe Bani, is from Livorno, Tuscany. In 1989, she moved to Torino, Italy, with her family and started playing volleyball.