Cole Shade Sule (born November 5, 1980) is a Cameroonian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Sule qualified for the men's 50 m freestyle at the

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, by receiving a Universality place from

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, in an entry time of 25.96. He challenged seven other swimmers in heat three, including 16-year-old Chris Hackel of Mauritius. He raced to second place by less than 0.17 of a second behind winner Hackel in 26.16. Sule failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed sixty-fourth out of 86 swimmers in the preliminaries.

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1980 births Living people Cameroonian male freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Cameroon Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Yaoundé {{Cameroon-swimming-bio-stub