TPLF sends an out of shape Tigrayan swimmer to the Olympics who ends up finishing last in the 100 metres

Robel Kiros Habte

By DailyMail

An Ethiopian Olympic swimmer took his place in the 100m heats but only managed to finish half a lap behind everyone else.

Robel Kiros Habte, from Ethiopia, was swimming in the Preliminary Men's 100m Freestyle heats at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.

Of the 59 competitors across the eight heats, the unfortunate swimmer was ranked 59th with a time of 1 minute 4.95 seconds.

Kyle Chalmers, from Australia, finished on top of the heat rounds with an astounding time of 47.9 seconds.

A total of 16 swimmers qualified to move on to the next round - the slowest of those being Nathan Adrian with a time of 48.58 seconds.

Twitter users took to the social network to comment on the tubby athlete.

Harold Siyaya wrote: 'How in the world did this Ethiopian swimmer (Robel Habte) qualify for the Olympics?

Dale Miller was more understanding and said: 'Ethiopia's Robel Kiros Habte finishes half a lap behind other swimmers in 100m free heat.

'Gets huge cheer after finishing. Love it'.

The Ethiopian Olympic team has sent 35 competitors to the games in Rio but has not yet won any medals.

Ethiopia's swimming hope finished last as the slowest swimmer ever (well at least at this Olympics). People are asking why better swimmers did not represent? Well could be because his dad is the the president of the Swimming Federation of #Ethiopia #willberwillberforce

A photo posted by ዊልልበር (@willberwillberforce) on Aug 10, 2016 at 4:58am PDT

En #Rio2016 caben todos|Hasta éste nadador 🏊 algo "gordito" Es Robel Kiros Habte de #Eth https://t.co/TD9PMMrtmc pic.twitter.com/aCEDmD0ZcO

— Tiempo Cero FM (@tiempocerofm) August 10, 2016

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