Personal information | |
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Full name | Khaled Ghezzawi |
National team | Libya |
Born | 9 May 1987 |
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Khaled Ghezzawi (Arabic: خالد الغزاوي; born May 9, 1987) is a Libyan swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Ghezzawi qualified for the men's 50 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 27.00. He challenged seven other swimmers in heat three, including 16-year-old Chris Hackel of Mauritius. He raced to sixth place in 27.55, just 0.55 of a second off his entry time. Ghezzawi failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed seventy-first overall out of 86 swimmers in the preliminaries.