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, placing second behind fellow Tunisian

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with a time of 4:06.51. Ben Naceur qualified for the men's 200 m freestyle at the

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, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:54.93 from the All-Africa Games in Abuja one year earlier. He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including dual citizen

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of Bulgaria. He edged out Singapore's

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in a close race for fourth seed by a hundredth of a second (0.01), posting his lifetime best of 1:54.69. Ben Naceur failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fiftieth overall in the preliminaries.

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1983 births Living people Olympic swimmers for Tunisia Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Tunisian male freestyle swimmers African Games silver medalists for Tunisia Swimmers at the 2003 All-Africa Games 20th-century Tunisian people 21st-century Tunisian sportsmen African Games silver medalists in swimming {{Tunisia-swimming-bio-stub