Hesham Shehab
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Full name | Hesham Shehab |
National team | ![]() |
Born | 20 April 1988 |
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Hesham Shehab (Arabic: هشام الشهابي; born April 20, 1988) is a Bahraini swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] Shehab qualified for the men's 100 m freestyle, as a 16-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 57.44.[2] He challenged six other swimmers in heat one, including 34-year-old Mumtaz Ahmed of Pakistan. He raced to fourth place in 57.94, exactly half a second (0.50) off his entry time. Shehab failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed sixty-sixth overall out of 71 swimmers in the preliminaries.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Hesham Shehab". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ^ "Swimming – Men's 100m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 1)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ^ "Men's 100m Freestyle Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ^ Thomas, Stephen (17 August 2004). "Men's 100 Freestyle Prelims Day 4: Lezak, Crocker Fail to Qualify. Hoogie Best with 48.70". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 April 2007. Retrieved 19 April 2013.