Английская Википедия:Gaurika Singh

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Файл:V. Malvika (INDIA) won Gold Medal, Shivani Kataria (INDIA) won Silver Medal and Gaurika Singh (NEPAL) won Bronze Medal, in the Women’s swimming 400m Freestyle category, at the 12th South Asian Games-2016, in Guwahati.jpg

File:V. Malvika (INDIA) won Gold Medal, Shivani Kataria (INDIA) won Silver Medal and Gaurika Singh (NEPAL) won Bronze Medal, in the Women’s swimming 400m Freestyle category, at the 12th South Asian Games-2016,

Gaurika Singh (Шаблон:Lang-ne; born 26 November 2002) is a Nepalese swimmer. She has held many national records since beginning her swimming career at the young age of eight. She has set the record of winning 4 gold medals in a season of the 2019 South Asian games held in Nepal. She won two silver and three bronze medals for swimming at the 2016 South Asian Games. She also participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as the youngest Olympian, representing Nepal in the Women's 100m backstroke. She has been included in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2021 Entertainment and Sports list.

Personal life

Gaurika Singh originally hails from Bhimdutta municipality, Kanchanpur but now lives and trains in London, United Kingdom at the Camden Swiss Cottage Swimming Club under coach Adam Taylor, who has produced world-class swimmers. Singh is also currently the good-will ambassador of the Shanti Education Initiative Nepal (SEIN).

Singh's father, Paras Singh, often accompanies and supports her around the world.

Singh studied at Haberdashers' Girls' School and Belmont Mill Hill Preparatory School.

Singh is currently studying in Tufts University.

Summer Olympics 2016

Файл:Shraddha Sudhir (INDIA) won Gold Medal, Gaurika Singh (NEPAL) won Silver Medal and Uthama Silva (SRI LANKA) won Bronze Medal in Women’s 200m Medley Swimming, at the 12th South Asian Games-2016, in Guwahati.jpg

File:Shraddha Sudhir (INDIA) won Gold Medal, Gaurika Singh (NEPAL) won Silver Medal and Uthama Silva (SRI LANKA) won Bronze Medal in Women’s 200m Medley Swimming, at the 12th South Asian Games-2016,

At 13 years and 255 days, Singh was the youngest athlete to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She won heat 1 of the 100m Backstroke in a time of 1:08:45 but did not qualify for the semifinals. Singh finished in 31st place.

Summer Olympics 2020

At the age of 18 years 8 months 2 days, Singh competed at 2020 Tokyo Olympic. She secured 3rd position of heat 1 of the 100m Freestyle in a time of 1:00:11. Singh managed to set the national record but didn’t qualify for semi-finals. Singh finished in 50th position.

External links

• Шаблон:Sports links
• 100m backstroke national record in the 2015 FINA World Championship
• Interview with Nepalisite at SEIN
• Interview with Terai Television
• Interview with CBBC Newsround
• Gaurika Singh, rio.com
• Tough talk with Olympian Gaurika and Garima Rana - Kantipur Television