Mehdi Hamama

Who is Mehdi Hamama?

Mehdi Hamama is an Algerian swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events. Hamama qualified for the men's 200 m individual medley at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:05.54 from the Mare Nostrum Barcelona Meet in Spain. He challenged six other swimmers on the first heat, including two-time Olympians Omar Pinzón of Colombia and Andrejs Dūda of Latvia. Hamama cruised to fourth place by less than 0.27 of a second behind Duda in his lifetime best of 2:04.91. Hamama failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-first overall in the preliminaries.