Rad Aweisat ( ar, رعد عويسات; born October 27, 1986) is a Palestinian swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. Aweisat qualified for the men's 100 m butterfly, as Palestine's youngest athlete (aged 17), at the

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. He received a Universality place from

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as part of his Olympic Solidarity program, without meeting an entry time. He participated in heat one against two other swimmers Luis Matias of Angola and Fernando Medrano of Nicaragua. He rounded out a small field of three to last place with a slowest time of 1:01.60, nearly 11 seconds off the world record set by U.S. swimmer

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. Aweisat failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-ninth overall in the preliminaries.

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1986 births Living people Palestinian male swimmers Olympic swimmers of Palestine Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Male butterfly swimmers Swimmers at the 2002 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Palestine {{Palestine-swimming-bio-stub