Senele Dlamini (born April 1, 1992) is a Swazi swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and backstroke events. She represented her nation

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at the

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, finishing among the top 65 swimmers in the 50 m freestyle. Dlamini received a Universality invitation from

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to compete as a lone female swimmer for the Swaziland team in the 50 m freestyle at the

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. Swimming on the outside in heat four, Dlamini smashed the 28-second barrier to take the second spot with a personal lifetime best of 28.70, but fell behind the winner Ximene Gomes of Mozambique by more than half a second. Dlamini failed to advance to the semifinals, as she placed sixty-first overall out of ninety-two swimmers in the prelims.

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
1992 births Living people People from Lobamba Swazi female swimmers Olympic swimmers for Eswatini Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swazi female freestyle swimmers {{Swaziland-swimming-bio-stub