Aghiles Slimani

Aghiles Slimani
Personal information
Nationality  Algeria
Born 20 August 1982
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Weight 57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly

Aghiles Slimani (Arabic: اغليس سليماني‎; born August 20, 1982) is a retired Algerian swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.[1] Slimani qualified for two swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by posting FINA B-standard entry times of 55.40 (100 m butterfly) and 2:03.18 (200 m butterfly) from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.[2][3] In the 200 m butterfly, Slimani challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Olympic veteran Vladan Marković of Serbia. He raced to sixth place and thirty-first overall by 0.16 of a second behind Markovic in 2:04.93.[4][5] In his second event, 100 m butterfly, Slimani placed forty-eighth on the morning's preliminaries. Swimming in heat three, he edged out Turkey's Onur Uras to take a seventh seed by fifteen hundredths of a second (0.15) in 56.22.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Aghiles Slimani". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 100m Butterfly Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 200m Butterfly Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Men's 200m Butterfly Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (16 August 2004). "Men’s 200 Butterfly, Prelims Day 3: Michael Phelps and Japan’s Yamamoto Tie As Fastest Qualifiers; Tom Malchow will be there too". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Men's 100m Butterfly Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  7. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (19 August 2004). "Men’s 100 Butterfly, Day 6 Prelims: Crocker Blasts Back into Form as Fastest Qualifier; Serdinov and Phelps Right on his Tail". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 11 April 2013.