Adil Khalid Mohammad ( ar, عادل خالد محمد; born 8 October 1988 in
Dubai) is an Emirati
sailor, who specialized in the
Laser class. Mohammad became the first and only Emirati sailor to represent his country at the Olympic Games, where he finished forty-second in his respective category at Beijing 2008.
Mohammed trained at the Emirates Sailing School in his native
Dubai, under head coach Omar Mohamed Bazara.
Mohammed qualified for his nation's Olympic sailing debut in the
Laser class at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing by granting a tripartite invitation from the
International Sailing Federation
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and the
International Olympic Committee.
[ Despite producing his best performance of the Games by finishing eleventh in the fifth race, Mohammad strived his relentless effort to obtain the penultimate position in a fleet of forty-three sailors at the end of the eleven-race series with 272 net points.]
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1988 births
Living people
Emirati male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for the United Arab Emirates
Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Laser
Sportspeople from Dubai
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