club weight height birth_date article_title strokes name collegeteam
millfield school 64 kg lb 0 on 1.74 0 on 12 october 1985 amar shah
 freestyle , breaststroke amar shah nottingham university
amar shah

amar shah -lrb- born october 12 , 1985 -rrb- is a kenyan swimmer who specialized in breaststroke , but also competed in the freestyle relays .
he is a single-time olympian -lrb- 2004 -rrb- , and a two-time swimmer at the commonwealth games -lrb- 2006 , and 2010 -rrb- .
shah qualified for the semi finals in 2010 commonwealth games setting a national record in the 50m breaststroke in a time of 30.53 he currently holds three long-course kenyan records in the 50 , 100 and 200 m breaststroke .
shah also won a total of bronze medals , as a member of the kenyan swimming team , in the freestyle and medley relays -lrb- along with brothers david and jason dunford -rrb- at the 2011 all-africa games in maputo , mozambique .
shah qualified for the men 's 100 m breaststroke at the 2004 summer olympics in athens , by receiving a universality place from fina in an entry time of 1:11.01 .
he participated in heat one against three other swimmers eric williams of nigeria , chisela kanchela of zambia , and alice shrestha of nepal .
he set a kenyan record of 1:10.17 to earn a third spot by a 2.48-second margin behind winner williams .
shah failed to advance into the semifinals , as he placed fifty-eighth overall out of 60 swimmers on the first day of preliminaries .
