Ahmed Al-Kudmani

Ahmad Al-Kudmani (احمد صفوان القضماني; born 18 August 1979) is a Saudi Arabian former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.

He is a two-time Olympian and a multiple-time medalist at the Pan Arab Games.

Al-Kudmani made his first all-male Saudi Arabian team, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he competed in the men's 100 m breaststroke.

Swimming in heat two, he picked up a fourth spot and fifty-sixth overall by a tenth of a second (0.10) behind Madagascar's Jean Luc Razakarivony in 1:06.07.

He also competed at the Asian Games (2002 and 2006), but failed to medal in any of his individual events.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Al-Kudmani qualified again for the men's 100 m breaststroke by receiving a Universality place from FINA in an invitation time of 1:06.07.

He challenged seven other swimmers on the same heat as Sydney, including his former rival Razakarivony.

He blasted a Saudi Arabian record and a personal best of 1:05.65 to share a second seed with Moldova's Andrei Capitanciuc.

Al-Kudmani failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-seventh overall on the first day of preliminaries.

Al-Kudmani is a former varsity swimmer for the USC Trojans, and a graduate of mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

In 2007, Al-Kudmani announced his retirement from swimming to spend time with his family and work for the seawater injection department at Saudi Aramco.