Full name Khalid Yahya Rushaka Sport Swimming Name Khalid Rushaka Weight 87 kg | Nationality Tanzania Event(s) Freestyle Height 1.86 m | |
Born 26 April 1980 (age 44) ( 1980-04-26 ) | ||
Khalid Yahya Rushaka (born April 26, 1980) is a Tanzanian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Rushaka represented Tanzania at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's 50 m freestyle. He finished third in the third heat by forty-five hundredths of a second (0.45) ahead of 13-year-old Seychellois swimmer Dwayne Didon, with a time of 28.50 seconds. Rushaka, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as he placed eighty-fourth out of ninety-seven swimmers in the overall rankings.
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