 Making his Summer Olympic debut , Jimmy Anak Ahar was notable for becoming the youngest ever competitor to represent Brunei at the Olympics aged 22 . The age record stood until the 2012 Summer Olympics , when Anderson Chee Wei Lim surpassed it . Ahar qualified for the 2004 Athens Games as a wildcard , as his best time , three minutes , 59 @.@ 81 seconds at the 2003 Southeast Asian Games Men 's 1500 meters , was 21 @.@ 81 seconds slower than the " B " qualifying standard required . He competed on 20 August in the Men 's 1500 meters against thirteen other athletes in the third heat . He ran a time of 4 minutes , 14 @.@ 11 seconds , finishing 13th . He ranked ahead of Tanzania 's Samwel Mwera ( who did not start ) , and behind Guam 's Neil Weare ( 4 minutes , 5 @.@ 86 seconds ) , in a heat led by Great Britain 's Michael East ( 3 minutes , 37 @.@ 37 seconds ) . Overall , Ahar placed 39th out of the 41 athletes that competed , and was 32 @.@ 97 seconds behind the slowest athlete that progressed to the next round . Therefore , that was the end of his competition . 
