Anas Hamadeh ( ar, أنس حمادة; born March 12, 1989) is a Jordanian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. He represented his nation

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

at the

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. Hamadeh was invited by FINA to compete for the Jordanian team in the men's 50 m freestyle at the

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. Swimming in heat six, he edged out Swaziland's Luke Hall by a hundredth of a second (0.01) to round out the top three in a splash-and-dash finish with a time of 24.40. Hamadeh, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as he placed fifty-ninth overall out of ninety-seven swimmers in the prelims.

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NBC Olympics Profile
1989 births Jordanian male freestyle swimmers Living people Olympic swimmers for Jordan Sportspeople from Amman Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics 21st-century Jordanian sportsmen {{Jordan-swimming-bio-stub