SINGH Gaurika

Nepal

Swimming

Date of Birth: 26 Nov 2002

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Olympic Scholarship

Place of birth: KATHMANDU

Birth Country:

Nepal

Place of residence : LONDON

Residence Country:

Great Britain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 100m Freestyle

Schedule

Change

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Freestyle - Heat 1	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Back
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	H (1:08.45)

World Championships

Year	Location	100Free	200Free	100Back
2019	Gwangju, KOR	H (1:00.62)	H (2:13.00)	-
2015	Kazan, RUS	H (1:03.23)	-	H (1:08.12)

Asian Games

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	200Free
2018	Indonesia	H (28.50)	H (1:00.82)	H (2:12.53)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Hobbies:

Spending time with family and friends, baking cakes, doing nail art. (blog.malala.org, 07 Feb 2018)

Occupation:

Student

Languages spoken:

English, Nepali

Club name:

Camden Swiss Cottage Swimming Club [London, GBR]

Coach:

Adam Taylor [club]; Shankar Karki [national]; Ongden Lama [national]

Debut:

2015 for Nepal, World Championships in Kazan, Russian Federation (Athlete, 08 Aug 2016)

Start:

She began swimming at age two, and started competing at age nine. (Athlete, 08 Aug 2016)

Training:

She has eight training sessions a week in the pool. She also does workouts with a personal trainer. (bramptoncollege.com, 16 Jun 2021)

Hero:

Australian swimmers Emily Seebohm and Mitch Larkin, US swimmer Micheal Phelps, Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu. (Athlete, 08 Aug 2016; smh.com.au, 05 Aug 2016)

Influence:

Her parents. (nlog.malala.org, 07 Feb 2018)

Award:

She and swimmer Alexander Shah were chosen as flag bearers for Nepal for the opening ceremony of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (thehimalayantimes.com, 13 Jul 2021)

She was nominated in the Outstanding Female Athlete award at the 2016 Nepal Sports Journalists Forum. (kathmandupost.ekantipur.com, 13 Jul 2016)

General Interest

General
2015 EARTHQUAKE
In April 2015 she was in Kathmandu, Nepal, preparing for the national championships when an earthquake struck the country, killing almost 9000 people. She was forced to take shelter under a table in a five-storey office building fearing for her life. "Luckily we were in a new office building, so it shook but nothing got damaged and it didn't collapse. But the places around us were destroyed. I can't really remember anything. It was just one big blur with everything shaking." (smh.com.au, 05 Aug 2016)

CHARITY WORK
She is the goodwill ambassador for the Shanti Education Initiative Nepal, which aims to rebuild the schools damaged by the earthquake in April 2015. She is also involved with Maiti Nepal, a non-profit organisation campaigning on domestic violence, human trafficking, child prostitution and labour. (bramptoncollege.com, 16 Jun 2021; forbes.com, 19 Apr 2021; blog.malala.org, 07 Feb 2018; thehimalayantimes.com, 10 Jun 2015)

FROM NEPAL TO LONDON
At age two she moved with her family from Nepal to London, England. (newindianexpress.com, 20 Aug 2018; thehimalayantimes.com, 08 Feb 2016)

COLLEGE COMMITMENT
She will be attending Tufts University in the United States of America, starting with the 2021/22 academic year. (swimswam.com, 15 Jul 2021; bramptoncollege.com, 16 Jun 2021)

Milestones

At age 13 years and 256 days, she was the youngest athlete competing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (smh.com.au, 05 Aug 2016; SportsDeskOnline, 22 Jul 2021)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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