Tamer Hamed Ali Zinhom Muhammad (also ''Tamer Hamed'', ar, تامر حامد علي زينهم محمد; born February 4, 1974) is an Egyptian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and butterfly events. He is a two-time Olympian (1996 and 2000), and an Egyptian record holder in the 50 m freestyle. Hamed made his official debut at the

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in Atlanta. He failed to reach the top 16 final in any of his individual events, finishing forty-sixth in the

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(56.46), and forty-seventh each in the

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(24.02) and

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(52.16). At the

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, Hamed competed only in a sprint freestyle double. He achieved FINA B-standards of 23.39 (50 m freestyle) and 52.14 (100 m freestyle) from the Egyptian Championships in Cairo. In the

, Hamed placed forty-fourth on the morning prelims. Swimming in heat four, he edged out Colombia's

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and Singapore's

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to race for a fourth seed by a tenth of a second (0.10) in 52.14. Two days later, in the

, Hamed participated in heat five against seven other swimmers, including three-time Olympians Richard Sam Bera of Indonesia and Allan Murray of the Bahamas, top 16 finalist in Atlanta four years earlier. He raced to a fifth seed and forty-sixth overall in 23.77, just a small fraction off his entry time.

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1974 births Living people Egyptian male swimmers Olympic swimmers of Egypt Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Egyptian male freestyle swimmers Male butterfly swimmers Sportspeople from Cairo African Games medalists in swimming African Games bronze medalists for Egypt Competitors at the 1995 All-Africa Games {{Egypt-swimming-bio-stub