Personal information | |
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Full name | Abdourahamane Diawara |
National team | Guinea |
Born | Fria, Guinea | 30 September 1978
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Abdourahamane Diawara (born September 30, 1978) is a Guinean former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. [1] Diawara qualified for the men's 50 m freestyle, as Guinea's only swimmer, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, without having an entry time. [2] He challenged five other swimmers in heat one, including 16-year-old Emile Rony Bakale of Congo. He posted a lifetime best of 28.10 to save a fifth spot over Mali's David Keita by more than a second. Diawara failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed seventy-sixth overall out of 86 swimmers in the preliminaries. [3] [4]
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