Mohammad Madwa
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Mohammad Ahmed Madwa |
| Nationality |
 Kuwait |
| Born |
10 February 1987 Kuwait City, Kuwait |
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
| College team | Arizona State Sun Devils (USA) |
Mohammad Ahmed Madwa (Arabic: محمد أحمد مدوة; born February 10, 1987 in Kuwait City) is a Kuwaiti swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] Madwa is also a varsity swimmer for the Arizona State Sun Devils, and a graduate of interdisciplinary studies at the Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona.
Madwa qualified for the men's 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 23.02 from the Asian Age Group Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia.[2][3] He challenged seven other swimmers on the eighth heat, including three-time Olympian Rolandas Gimbutis of Lithuania. Madwa edged out Venezuela's Jonathan Javier Camacho Riera to take the fourth spot by four hundredths of a second (0.04), posting his personal best of 22.83. Madwa failed to advance into the semifinals, as he shared a forty-fifth place tie with two-time Olympian Jevon Atkinson of Jamaica in the preliminaries.[4]
References
- ↑ "Mohammad Madwa". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 50m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 2. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
- ↑ "Mohammed Madwa Becomes First Swimmer in Kuwait History to Qualify for Olympic Games". Arizona State Sun Devils. 7 September 2007. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 50m Freestyle Heat 8". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 1 January 2013.