Amar Shah, Date of Birth

    

Amar Shah

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1985

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Kenya

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Amar Shah

  • Amar Shah (born 12 October 1985) is a Kenyan former swimmer who specialized in breaststroke, but also competed in the freestyle relays.
  • He is a single-time Olympian (2004), and a two-time swimmer at the Commonwealth Games (2006, and 2010).
  • Shah qualified for the semifinals 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 (along with brothers David and Jason Dunford) 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.

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