Emery Nziyunvira, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Emery Nziyunvira

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1984

Place of Birth: Bujumbura, Bujumbura Mairie Province, Burundi

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Burundi

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Emery Nziyunvira

  • Emery Nziyunvira (born March 19, 1984 in Bujumbura) is a Burundian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.
  • At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Nziyunvira was elected by the Burundi National Olympic Committee (French: Comité National Olympique du Burundi) to carry the nation's flag in the opening ceremony.
  • He qualified for the men's 100 m freestyle, by receiving a Universality place from FINA in an entry time of 1:09.84.
  • He challenged six other swimmers in heat one, including 34-year-old Mumtaz Ahmed of Pakistan.
  • He rounded out the field to last place in a lifetime best of 1:09.40, exactly 43 seconds faster than a historic record time of 1:52.72, held by Equatorial Guinea's Eric Moussambani in 2000.
  • Nziyunvira failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed sixty-ninth overall out of 71 swimmers in the preliminaries.

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