fullname club birth_place weight height birth_date article_title strokes name
mahmoud amr el-wany al-ahly swim club cairo , egypt 90 kg lb 0 on 1.87 0 on 8 march 1981 mahmoud el-wany
 freestyle mahmoud el-wany
mahmoud el-wany

mahmoud amr el-wany -lrb- ; born march 8 , 1981 in cairo -rrb- is a retired egyptian swimmer , who specialized in middle-distance freestyle events .
he is a single-time olympian -lrb- 2000 -rrb- , and a member of al-ahly swim club in cairo .
el-wany competed only in the men 's 200 m freestyle at the 2000 summer olympics in sydney .
he eclipsed a fina b-cut of 1:55.28 -lrb- 200 m freestyle -rrb- from the egyptian championships in cairo .
he challenged four other swimmers in heat one , including uzbekistan 's two-time olympian oleg tsvetkovskiy .
leading the other half of the race , el-wany faded shortly to a second seed on the final lap by 0.26 seconds behind tsvetkovskiy , but bettered a personal mark of 1:55.19 .
el-wany failed to advance into the semifinals , as he placed forty-sixth overall in the prelims .
