Edgar Luberenga

Edgar Luberenga
Personal information
Full name Edgar Luberenga
National team  Uganda
Born (1979-04-27) 27 April 1979
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle

Edgar Luberenga (born April 27, 1979) is a Ugandan former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] Luberenga qualified for the men's 50 m freestyle, as Uganda's only swimmer, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He received a Universality place from FINA in an entry time of 27.30.[2] He challenged seven other swimmers in heat three, including 16-year-old Chris Hackel of Mauritius. He rounded out the field to last place by six hundredths of a second (0.06) behind Maldives' Hassan Mubah in 27.77. Luberenga failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed seventy-fifth overall out of 86 swimmers in the preliminaries.[3][4]

References

  1. "Edgar Luberenga". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  2. "Swimming – Men's 50m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  3. "Men's 50m Freestyle Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 20 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. Thomas, Stephen (19 August 2004). "Men's 50 Freestyle Prelims Day 6: Hall Splashes a Hot 22.04, Fastest Qualifier; Lezak Makes This One but Popov, Hoogie Bow Out". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
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