Rad Aweisat

Rad Aweisat (Arabic: رعد عويسات; born October 27, 1986) is a Palestinian swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.^[1] Aweisat qualified for the men's 100 m butterfly, as Palestine's youngest athlete (aged 17), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He received a Universality place from FINA as part of his Olympic Solidarity program, without meeting an entry time.^[2][3] He participated in heat one against two other swimmers Luis Matias of Angola and Fernando Medrano of Nicaragua. He rounded out a small field of three to last place with a slowest time of 1:01.60, nearly 11 seconds off the world record set by U.S. swimmer Ian Crocker.^[3] Aweisat failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-ninth overall in the preliminaries.^[4][5]

Rad Aweisat

Personal information
Full name	Rad Aweisat
National team	Palestine
Born	(1986-10-27) 27 October 1986 (age 38)
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly