Hesham Shehab
Personal information
Full nameHesham Shehab
National team Bahrain
Born (1988-04-20) 20 April 1988
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight71 kg (157 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle

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

  1. 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.
  2. "Swimming – Men's 100m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 1)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  3. "Men's 100m Freestyle Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. 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.
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