birth_place weight height birth_date article_title strokes name
muscat , oman 63 kg lb 0 on 1.70 0 on 2 may 1986 khalid al-kulaibi
 freestyle , open water khalid al-kulaibi
khalid al-kulaibi

khalid al-kulaibi -lrb- ; born may 2 , 1986 in muscat -rrb- is an omani swimmer , who specialized in sprint freestyle and open water marathon .
he represented oman , as a 14-year-old , at the 2000 summer olympics , and later became an open water swimmer at the 2011 fina world championships .
al-kulaibi competed only in the men 's 50 m freestyle at the 2000 summer olympics in sydney .
he received a ticket from fina , under a universality program , in an entry time of 26.96 .
swimming in heat two , he edged out laos ' sikhounxay ounkhamphanyavong on the final stretch to save a seventh seed by 0.07 of a second in 26.96 .
al-kulaibi failed to advance into the semifinals , as he placed sixty-eighth overall out of 80 swimmers in the prelims .
eleven years after his olympic stint , al-kulaibi qualified for his omani team , as a 25-year-old open water swimmer , at the 2011 fina world championships in shanghai , china .
he placed forty-first in the 5 km race with a scintillating time of 1:02:14.8 , sufficiently enough for his personal best .
