Ömer Aslanoğlu (born 23 May 1988) is a Turkish former swimmer, who specialized in the breaststroke events. He represented his nation

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at the

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, and also swam for Galatasaray Sports Club ( tr, Galatasaray Spor Kulübü). Aslanoglu competed as a member of the Turkish squad in the men's 200 m breaststroke at the

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. Leading up to the Games, he eclipsed a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:17.85 from the Speedo Turkish Open Senior Championships in Izmir. Swimming in heat one, Aslanoglu raced steadily to fourth place and fifty-first overall with a time of 2:17.93, just a slight 0.08 of a second slower than his entry standard.

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
1988 births Living people Olympic swimmers for Turkey Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Turkish male breaststroke swimmers Galatasaray Swimming swimmers Sportspeople from Trabzon Swimmers at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games competitors for Turkey 20th-century Turkish people 21st-century Turkish people {{Turkey-swimming-bio-stub