Tamer Hamed

Tamer Hamed
Personal information
Full name Tamer Hamed Ali Zinhom
Muhammad
National team  Egypt
Born (1974-02-04) 4 February 1974
Cairo, Egypt
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
Club Al-Ahly Swim Club

Tamer Hamed Ali Zinhom Muhammad (also Tamer Hamed, Arabic: تامر حامد علي زينهم محمد‎; born February 4, 1974) is an Egyptian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and butterfly events.[1] He is a two-time Olympian (1996 and 2000), and an Egyptian record holder in the 50 m freestyle.

Hamed made his official debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He failed to reach the top 16 final in any of his individual events, finishing forty-sixth in the 100 m butterfly (56.46), and forty-seventh each in the 50 m freestyle (24.02) and 100 m freestyle (52.16).[2][3][4]

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Hamed competed only in a sprint freestyle double. He achieved FINA B-standards of 23.39 (50 m freestyle) and 52.14 (100 m freestyle) from the Egyptian Championships in Cairo.[5][6] In the 100 m freestyle, Hamed placed forty-fourth on the morning prelims. Swimming in heat four, he edged out Colombia's Fernando Jácome and Singapore's Mark Chay to race for a fourth seed by a tenth of a second (0.10) in 52.14.[7][8] Two days later, in the 50 m freestyle, Hamed participated in heat five against seven other swimmers, including three-time Olympians Richard Sam Bera of Indonesia and Allan Murray of the Bahamas, top 16 finalist in Atlanta four years earlier. He raced to a fifth seed and forty-sixth overall in 23.77, just a small fraction off his entry time.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Tamer Hamed". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Aquatics (Swimming) – Men's 50m Freestyle Heat 4" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 35. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Aquatics (Swimming) – Men's 100m Freestyle Heat 4" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 36. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Aquatics (Swimming) – Men's 100m Butterfly Heat 4" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 46. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 50m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 5)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 100m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 4)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 100m Freestyle Heat 4" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 114. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "Wide-open race in the men's 100 free". Canoe.ca. 18 September 2000. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  9. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 50m Freestyle Heat 5" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 105. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
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