Nationality Filipino Role Swimmer Sport Swimming Height 1.65 m | Strokes Butterfly, freestyle Weight 55 kg Name Jasmine Al-Khaldi | |
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Born 20 June 1993 ( 1993-06-20 ) Paranaque | ||
Jasmine Alkhaldi is a Filipino swimmer who represented the Philippines in the 2012 Summer Olympics. She holds the Philippine women's record in the 200, 100, 50 metre freestyle and 100 metre butterfly and 50 metre butterfly events.
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Personal life
Alkhaldi was born in Parañaque to a Filipino mother from Cebu and a Saudi Arabian father. She is the second of three siblings. Her brother, Fahad, is also a swimmer. Alkhaldi attended and graduated from the University of Hawai'i.
Swimming career
Prior to her participation in the 2012 Summer Olympics, Alkhaldi held the Philippines women's record in the 100 metre butterfly and 50 metre butterfly. Her personal best swimming times included the following.
In the 2012 Summer Olympics, Alkhaldi swam the 100 metre freestyle in 57.13 seconds, placing 34th out of 50 competitors.
In the 2013 Southeast Asian Games, she swam the 100 metre freestyle in a time of 56.65, winning the gold medal, however, the technical committee annulled the results because of a false start. In the re-swim, she placed third and received bronze with a time of 56.63. She also won the 100 metre butterfly receiving the bronze medal.
In the 2015 Southeast Asian Games in Singapore, she swam the 50 metre butterfly in 27.47, 100 metre freestyle in 56.10 and 200 metre freestyle in 2.00.84 where she beat the Philippine National Record also getting three bronze medals in these event. She ranked 4th in 4 × 100 metre freestyle with a time of 3.53.57 with Hannah Dato, Elizabeth Jordana and Roxanne Ashley Yu beating the previous Philippine national record of 3.56.20, clocked last in the 2009 SEA Games in Laos.
Popularity
During the 2012 Summer Olympics, Alkhaldi became popular in online Saudi Arabian social networks, because she was a woman of Saudi Arabian origin who competed in the Olympic Games. Sarah Attar and Wojdan Shaherkani were the first women to compete in Olympic competition for Saudi Arabia.