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| Full name | Onan Orlando Thom | ||||||||
| National team |  Guyana | ||||||||
| Born | 11 April 1984 Linden, Guyana | ||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||
| Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | ||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||
Medal record
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Onan Orlando Thom (born April 11, 1984) is a Guyanese former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. [1] Thom qualified for the men's 100 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 54.14. [2] He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including three-time Olympian Aleksandr Agafonov of Uzbekistan. He earned a sixth spot in 55.24, more than a second off his entry time. Thom failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-ninth overall out of 71 swimmers in the preliminaries. [3] [4]
