Saleh Mohammad (Arabic: صالح محمد; born April 27, 1986) is a Syrian swimmer, who specialized in open water marathon.[1] He represented his Syria in the inaugural 10 km race at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has also won a career total of four medals (three golds and one silver) in a major international open water competition, spanning two editions of the Asian Beach Games (2008 and 2010).[2][3]
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Saleh Mohammad | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Syria | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 April 1986 Damascus, Syria | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Open water | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mohammad competed as a lone open water swimmer for Syria in the inaugural men's 10 km marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he finished with a twenty-third place time of 1:54:45.5, but managed to pick up the continental spot as Asia's representative at the FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships in Seville, Spain.[4][5] Farther from the leaders by about ten body lengths, Mohammad nearly pulled from the end of the field to claim the nineteenth spot out of twenty-four entrants in 1:54:37.7, two minutes and forty-six seconds (2:46) behind eventual gold medalist Maarten van der Weijden of the Netherlands.[6]
References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Saleh Mohammad". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^ "Syria's Saleh Mohammad wins first Games gold". Chinese Olympic Committee. 9 December 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^ "Asian Beach Games star leads Syria swim team". Olympic Council of Asia. 18 May 2011. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^ Munatones, Steven (4 May 2008). "FINA World Open Water Championships: Russia Revisited, Hackett Disqualification Report". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^ "Syrian swimmer qualified for Beijing Olympic Games". Chinese Olympic Committee. 5 May 2008. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^ "Swimming: Men's Marathon 10km". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 17 August 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
External links
edit
.svg){kind=small}  | This biographical article related to a Syrian swimmer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |