Saleh Mohammad (swimmer)

Saleh Mohammad

Personal information
Full name	Saleh Mohammad
National team	Syria
Born	(1986-04-27) 27 April 1986 (age 38) Damascus, Syria
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Open water
Medal record Men's swimming Representing  Syria Asian Beach Games 2008 Bali 5 km open 2008 Bali 10 km open 2010 Muscat 5 km open 2010 Muscat 10 km open

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]

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

1. 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.
2. "Syria's Saleh Mohammad wins first Games gold". Chinese Olympic Committee. 9 December 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
3. "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.
4. 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.
5. "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.
6. "Swimming: Men's Marathon 10km". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 17 August 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2013.

External links

• NBC 2008 Olympics profile