Career
Salabutau qualified for the men"s 200 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:51.23 from the Belarus Open Championships in Minsk. He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including two-time Olympians Joshua Ilika Brenner of Mexico and Giancarlo Zolezzi of Chile. He raced to sixth place by three hundredths of a second (003) behind Algeria"s Mahrez Mebarek in 1:53.03.
Salabutau failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-seventh overall in the preliminaries.
