Sade Daal

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Sade Daal
Personal information
Full nameSade Daal
National teamFlag of Suriname.svg  Suriname
Born (1988-09-30) 30 September 1988 (age 34)
Paramaribo, Suriname
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle

Sade Daal (born 30 September 1988) is a Surinamese swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. [1] Daal qualified for the women's 50 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 29.14. [2] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including 31-year-old Melanie Slowing of Guatemala. She rounded out the field to last place in 29.27, just 0.13 of a second off her personal best. Daal failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fifty-fourth overall out of 75 swimmers on the last day of preliminaries. [3] [4]

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References

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