Sultan Al-Otaibi (Arabic: سلطان العتيبي; born May 21, 1970) is a Kuwaiti former swimmer, who specialized in individual medley, but also competed in backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.
[1] He represented Kuwait in all of the four editions of the Olympic Games since 1988, and also held numerous Kuwaiti records in the same disciplines, particularly in the 200 m individual medley.
Al-Otaibi made his official debut, as an 18-year-old, at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
He achieved a FINA B-cut of 2:09.22 from the Asian Swimming Championships in Busan, South Korea.
[5] Swimming in heat one, Al-Otaibi posted a time of 2:16.23 to easily escape from last place to a seventh seed over Jordan's 16-year-old Omar Abu Fares.