Ahmed Al-Kudmani
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Ahmad Al-Kudmani |
| National team |  Saudi Arabia |
| Born | 18 August 1979 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Breaststroke |
| College team | University of Southern California (U.S.) |
| Coach | Dave Salo (U.S.) |
Ahmad Al-Kudmani (Arabic: احمد القضماني; born August 18, 1979) is a Saudi Arabian former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] He is a two-time Olympian, a current Saudi Arabian record holder in the 100 and 200 m breaststroke, and a multiple-time medalist at the Pan Arab Games.
Al-Kudmani made his first all-male Saudi Arabian team, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he competed in the men's 100 m breaststroke. Swimming in heat two, he picked up a fourth spot and fifty-sixth overall by a tenth of a second (0.10) behind Madagascar's Jean Luc Razakarivony in 1:06.07.[2]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Al-Kudmani qualified again for the men's 100 m breaststroke by receiving a Universality place from FINA in an invitation time of 1:06.07.[3] He challenged seven other swimmers on the same heat as Sydney, including his former rival Razakarivony. He blasted a Saudi Arabian record and a personal best of 1:05.65 to share a second seed with Moldova's Andrei Capitanciuc. Al-Kudmani failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-seventh overall on the first day of preliminaries.[4][5]
Al-Kudmani is a former varsity swimmer for the USC Trojans, and a graduate of mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He also competed at the Asian Games (2002 and 2006), but failed to medal in any of his individual events. In 2007, Al-Kudmani announced his retirement from swimming to spend time with his family and work for the seawater injection department at Saudi Aramco.[6]
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External links
- Player Bio – USC Trojans
- Ahmed Al-Kudmani on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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