Personal information | |
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Full name | Rad Aweisat |
National team | Palestine |
Born | 27 October 1986 |
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Butterfly |
Rad Aweisat ( Arabic: رعد عويسات; born October 27, 1986) is a Palestinian swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. [1] Aweisat qualified for the men's 100 m butterfly, as Palestine's youngest athlete (aged 17), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He received a Universality place from FINA as part of his Olympic Solidarity program, without meeting an entry time. [2] [3] He participated in heat one against two other swimmers Luis Matias of Angola and Fernando Medrano of Nicaragua. He rounded out a small field of three to last place with a slowest time of 1:01.60, nearly 11 seconds off the world record set by U.S. swimmer Ian Crocker. [3] Aweisat failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-ninth overall in the preliminaries. [4] [5]
Personal information | |
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Full name | Rad Aweisat |
National team | Palestine |
Born | 27 October 1986 |
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Butterfly |
Rad Aweisat ( Arabic: رعد عويسات; born October 27, 1986) is a Palestinian swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. [1] Aweisat qualified for the men's 100 m butterfly, as Palestine's youngest athlete (aged 17), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He received a Universality place from FINA as part of his Olympic Solidarity program, without meeting an entry time. [2] [3] He participated in heat one against two other swimmers Luis Matias of Angola and Fernando Medrano of Nicaragua. He rounded out a small field of three to last place with a slowest time of 1:01.60, nearly 11 seconds off the world record set by U.S. swimmer Ian Crocker. [3] Aweisat failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-ninth overall in the preliminaries. [4] [5]