AL-YAMANI Mokhtar

12 May 1997
24
Male
Olympic Scholarship
1.80/5'10''
NEW YORK, NY
 
United States of America
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
SWM Swimming Men's 100m Freestyle  
Men's 200m Freestyle  

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Finished
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

:
World Championships
YearLocation100Free200Free
2019Gwangju, KORH (51.16)H (1:50.18)
2017Budapest, HUNH (51.19)H (1:49.87)

Asian Games
YearLocation50Free100Free200Free400Free
2018IndonesiaH (23.80)H (51.51)H (1:51.14)H (3:57.61)

World Championships Short Course
YearLocation50Free100Free200Free
2016Windsor, ON, CANH (23.10)H (49.55)H (1:47.78)


Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final
:
Watching movies, working on cars. (Athlete, 21 Jul 2021)
:
Analyst, Athlete, Student
:
International Studies - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
:
Arabic, English, Japanese
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Club Wolverine [Ann Arbor, MI, USA]
:
Josh White [club], USA; Mike Bottom [club, national], USA
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He began swimming at age three in Japan. (Athlete, 21 Jul 2021)
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He almost drowned in the ocean so his parents enrolled him in swimming lessons. (Athlete, 21 Jul 2021)
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Becoming the first swimmer to represent Yemen in two events at the Olympic Games when he competes at Tokyo 2020. (Athlete, 21 Jul 2021)
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Danish swimmer Anders Lie Nielsen. (Athlete, 17 Aug 2018)
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In 2019 he received a University of Michigan Athletic Academic Achievement award. (mgoblue.com, 01 May 2019)

General Interest

General
FAMILY BACKGROUND
Born in New York, NY, United States of America, to a Yemeni father and Japanese mother, he was raised in Tokyo, Japan, where he studied at St Mary's International School, before moving to the United States of America to study at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2015. (mgoblue.com, 21 Mar 2018; Michigan Men's Swimming and Diving Facebook page, 09 Feb 2017)

FURTHER STUDIES
After graduating from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in international relations and national security studies in 2019, he continued his studies there, starting a master's degree in management in 2020. (Athlete, 21 Jul 2021; LinkedIn profile, 17 Jul 2021)

OCCUPATION
He works as a strategy analyst at the American Advertising Federation. (LinkedIn profile, 17 Jul 2021)

Legend
:
Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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