Leonel Matonse

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Leonel Matonse
Personal information
Full nameLeonel dos Santos Matonse
National teamFlag of Mozambique.svg  Mozambique
Born (1988-10-14) 14 October 1988 (age 34)
Maputo, Mozambique
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
ClubTuks Aquatics Club (RSA)

Leonel dos Santos Matonse (born October 14, 1988) is a Mozambican swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. [1] Matonse qualified for the men's 100 m freestyle, as a 15-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 59.87. [2] [3] He challenged six other swimmers in heat one, including 34-year-old Mumtaz Ahmed of Pakistan. He set a Mozambican record of 57.79 to earn a third spot by nearly a second behind winner Mohammed Abbas of Iraq. Matonse failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed sixty-fifth overall out of 71 swimmers in the preliminaries. [4] [5]

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