Mohammad Madwa
Kuwaiti swimmer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mohammad Ahmed Madwa (Arabic: محمد أحمد مدوه; born February 10, 1987) is a Kuwaiti swimmer who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] He represented his nation Kuwait at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and also served as a varsity swimmer for the Arizona State Sun Devils under head coach Dorsey Tierney-Walker, while pursuing his major in interdisciplinary studies at the Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona.[2]
Personal information | |
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Full name | Mohammad Ahmed Madwa |
National team | Kuwait |
Born | (1987-02-10) 10 February 1987 (age 37) Kuwait City, Kuwait |
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
College team | Arizona State University (U.S.) |
Coach | Dorsey Tierney-Walker (U.S.) |
Madwa became the first ever Kuwaiti swimmer to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing within the Olympic cut, competing in the men's 50 m freestyle. He finished under the FINA B-cut (23.12) by exactly a tenth of a second with a blistering 23.02 at the Asian Age Group Championships one year earlier in Jakarta, Indonesia.[3][4] Swimming on the outside in heat eight of the prelims, Madwa smashed the 23-second barrier to take the fourth spot in a personal best of 22.83, but sharing a forty-fifth place tie with two-time Olympian Jevon Atkinson would not be enough to put him further to the semifinals.[5]