Career
El Haress competed for Lebanon in the women"s 100 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She received a ticket from FINA, under a Universality program, in an entry time of 1:00.00. She challenged seven other swimmers in heat one, including 15-year-olds Maria Awori of Kenya and Nathalie Lee Baw of Mauritius.
She raced to the second seed in a time of 1:03.26, more than three seconds outside her personal best.
El Haress failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-eighth overall in the prelims.
