Personal information | |
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Full name | Omar Abu Fares |
National team | Jordan |
Born | Amman, Jordan | 16 August 1984
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Backstroke, medley |
Omar Abu Fares (Arabic: عمر ابو فارس; born 16 August 1984) is a Jordanian former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke and individual medley events.[1]
Abu Fares made his Olympic debut, as a 16-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he competed in the men's 200 m individual medley. He rounded out the first heat to last place and fifty-sixth overall with a slowest time of 2:21.22.[2]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Abu Fares qualified for his second Jordanian squad in the men's 100 m backstroke by receiving a Universality place from FINA in an invitation time of 1:00.34.[3] Abu Fares still maintained his record for being one of the slowest swimmers from the preliminaries, as he finished the same heat in a time of 1:02.36.[4][5]