Aghiles Slimani
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Aghiles Slimani |
| National team |  Algeria |
| Born | 20 August 1982 |
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Butterfly |
Aghiles Slimani (Arabic: اغليس سليماني; born August 20, 1982) is an Algerian former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.[1] Slimani qualified for two swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by posting FINA B-standard entry times of 55.40 (100 m butterfly) and 2:03.18 (200 m butterfly) from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.[2][3] In the 200 m butterfly, Slimani challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Olympic veteran Vladan Marković of Serbia. He raced to sixth place and thirty-first overall by 0.16 of a second behind Markovic in 2:04.93.[4][5] In his second event, 100 m butterfly, Slimani placed forty-eighth on the morning's preliminaries. Swimming in heat three, he edged out Turkey's Onur Uras to take a seventh seed by fifteen hundredths of a second (0.15) in 56.22.[6][7]
