Omar Abu Fares (Arabic: عمر ابو فارس; born 16 August 1984) is a Jordanian former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke and individual medley events.

He rounded out the first heat to last place and fifty-sixth overall with a slowest time of 2:21.22.

[2] At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Abu Fares qualified for his second Jordanian squad in the men's 100 m backstroke by receiving a Universality place from FINA in an invitation time of 1:00.34.

[3] Abu Fares still maintained his record for being one of the slowest swimmers from the preliminaries, as he finished the same heat in a time of 1:02.36.

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