Aghiles Slimani ( ar, اغليس سليماني; born August 20, 1982) is an Algerian former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. Slimani qualified for two swimming events at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in
Athens, by posting FINA B-standard entry times of 55.40 (100 m butterfly) and 2:03.18 (200 m butterfly) from the
World Championships in
Barcelona, Spain
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. In the
200 m butterfly, Slimani challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Olympic veteran
Vladan Marković
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of Serbia. He raced to sixth place and thirty-first overall by 0.16 of a second behind Markovic in 2:04.93. In his second event,
100 m butterfly
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, Slimani placed forty-eighth on the morning's preliminaries. Swimming in heat three, he edged out Turkey's
Onur Uras to take a seventh seed by fifteen hundredths of a second (0.15) in 56.22.
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1982 births
Living people
Algerian male swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Algeria
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Male butterfly swimmers
21st-century Algerian people
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