Ahmed Salah Abdou Nada ( ar, أحمد صلاح عبده ندا; born December 6, 1986) is an Egyptian swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. He represented his nation

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at the

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, finishing among the top 60 swimmers in the men's 100 m butterfly. Nada competed for the Egyptian swimming team in the men's 100 m butterfly at the

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. He charged his way to the top of the field in 54.48 to clear the FINA-B cut (54.70) by about two tenths of a second (0.2) at the

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one year earlier in

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. Swimming in heat two, Nada fought off a sprint challenge against Saudi Arabia's Bader Al-Muhana on the final lap, until both touched the wall in a matching fifth-place time in 55.59. Sharing a tie with Al-Muhana for sixty-first overall in the prelims, Nada did not advance to the semifinals.

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NBC Olympics Profile
1986 births Living people Egyptian male swimmers Olympic swimmers of Egypt Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Male butterfly swimmers Sportspeople from Cairo African Games silver medalists for Egypt African Games medalists in swimming African Games bronze medalists for Egypt Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games {{Egypt-swimming-bio-stub