Full name Emery Nziyunvira Height 1.80 m National team Burundi Weight 62 kg | Sport Swimming Strokes Freestyle swimming Name Emery Nziyunvira | |
Born 19 March 1984 (age 40) ( 1984-03-19 ) Bujumbura, Burundi | ||
Emery Nziyunvira (born March 19, 1984 in Bujumbura) is a Burundian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Nziyunvira was elected by the Burundi National Olympic Committee (French: Comité National Olympique du Burundi) to carry the nation's flag in the opening ceremony. He qualified for the men's 100 m freestyle, by receiving a Universality place from FINA in an entry time of 1:09.84. He challenged six other swimmers in heat one, including 34-year-old Mumtaz Ahmed of Pakistan. He rounded out the field to last place in a lifetime best of 1:09.40, exactly 43 seconds faster than a historic record time of 1:52.72, held by Equatorial Guinea's Eric Moussambani in 2000. Nziyunvira failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed sixty-ninth overall out of 71 swimmers in the preliminaries.