Mehdi Hamama

Mehdi Hamama
Personal information
Nationality  Algeria
Born (1985-05-07) 7 May 1985
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in)
Weight 88 kg (194 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Individual medley

Mehdi Hamama (Arabic: مهدي حمامة‎; born May 7, 1985) is an Algerian swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events.[1] Hamama qualified for the men's 200 m individual medley at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:05.54 from the Mare Nostrum Barcelona Meet in Spain.[2][3] He challenged six other swimmers on the first heat, including two-time Olympians Omar Pinzón of Colombia and Andrejs Dūda of Latvia. Hamama cruised to fourth place by less than 0.27 of a second behind Duda in his lifetime best of 2:04.91. Hamama failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-first overall in the preliminaries.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Mehdi Hamama". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Individual Medley" Check |url= value (help) (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 40. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Mare Nostrum Barcelona". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Men's 200m Individual Medley Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 22 December 2012.

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