Leonel dos Santos Matonse (born October 14, 1988) is a Mozambican swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] Matonse qualified for the men's 100 m freestyle, as a 15-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 59.87.[2][3] He challenged six other swimmers in heat one, including 34-year-old Mumtaz Ahmed of Pakistan. He set a Mozambican record of 57.79 to earn a third spot by nearly a second behind winner Mohammed Abbas of Iraq. Matonse failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed sixty-fifth overall out of 71 swimmers in the preliminaries.[4][5]
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Full name | Leonel dos Santos Matonse |
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Born | (1988-10-14) 14 October 1988 (age 33) Maputo, Mozambique |
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Club | Tuks Aquatics Club (RSA) |
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