The Olympic champion Ayoub Hafnaoui failed this Sunday, February 11, to qualify for the 400m final.
Indeed, the world championships disputed in Qatar started badly for our Olympic champion. In the running for a triplet of world titles 400-800-1 500, the Tunisian could not qualify in the 400m final, he ranked 17th after achieving three minutes 48.05 seconds.
The former world champion, the Australian Elijah Winnington qualified in first position with a time of 3: 44.37.
The other Tunisian swimmer Ahmed Jaouadi also collected a setback in the same race, he ranked 5th in series No. 4 with a time equal to 3’49 ″ 85. In the general classification, it is classified 25th.
Hafnaoui will try, all the same, to defend its titles of the 800 and 1,500 m freestyle later in the competition.
