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Jikirum Adjaluddin

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Jikirum Adjaluddin
Personal information
National team Philippines
Born(1912-01-11)January 11, 1912
Siasi, Sulu Sultanate[1]
DiedApril 1, 1938(1938-04-01) (aged 26)[1]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBreaststroke, freestyle

Jikirum Adjaluddin was a Filipino swimmer who competed at the 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics.[2]

Adjaluddin was the only Southeast Asian to qualify for the semifinals of more than one event[3] until the 2016 Summer Olympics when Singaporean Joseph Schooling and Quah Zheng Wen qualified for the semifinals in two events each.

Career

Jikirum Adjaluddin finished in 5th place at the 10th Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California in 1932. He made it to the finals of the Men’s 200m Breaststroke event.

While at the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany in 1936, Jikirum Adjaluddin made it to the semifinal round of the Men’s 100m Free and 200m Breaststroke events where he finished 11th and 12th.

References

  1. ^ a b "Jikirum Adjaluddin". SR/Olympic Sports. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  2. ^ "JIKIRUM ADJALUDDIN". Olympics. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Statistics you need to know to root for our Olympic swimmers". The Independent. 4 August 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016.