the slowest athlete that progressed to the next round. Therefore, that was the end of his competition. Competing at her first Summer Olympics, Hawanatu Bangura was notable for holding the Sierra Leone flag at the opening ceremony and for becoming the youngest ever competitor to represent Sierra Leone at the Olympics aged 16, a record that still stands today. She qualified for the Athens Games via winning an event in Freetown. She competed on 20 August in 100 meters in the seventh heat against seven other athletes. She ran a time of 12.11 seconds, finishing seventh. Bangura ranked ahead of Iraq's Alaa Jassim (12.70 seconds) and behind Papua New Guinea's Mae Koime (12.00 seconds), in a heat led by France's Christine Arron and Ghana's Vida Anim (11.14 seconds). Overall, Bangura was 0.68 seconds behind the slowest athlete that progressed to the quarter-finals and therefore she did not advance. Men Women References Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2004 Olympics