GAFFOOR Aniqah

Date of Birth: 23 Jan 2004

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Birth Country:

Sri Lanka

Place of residence : THAILAND

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 100m Butterfly

Schedule

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

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	50Fly	100Fly
2019	Gwangju, KOR	H (30.36)	H (1:12.63)

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

Occupation:

Miguel Lopez, ESP; Alexander Tikhonov, RUS; Manoj Abeysinghe [national], SRI

She took up swimming at age nine at ELC International School in Malaysia. (sundayobserver.lk, 12 Jun 2021)

Her passion for swimming came when she represented her school at the FOBISIA Games. "We did four sports over three days - athletics, basketball, football and swimming. I did swimming predominantly. I loved all sports but I had a passion for swimming." (sundayobserver.lk, 12 Jun 2021)

To compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (thephuketnews.com, 01 Jan 2020)

She trains at the FINA Training Centre in Phuket, Thailand. (sundayobserver.lk, 12 Jun 2021)

Winning two medals at the 2019 South Asian Games in Kathmandu, Nepal. (thephuketnews.com, 01 Jan 2020)

US swimmer Michael Phelps. (thephuketnews.com, 01 Jan 2020)

Philosophy:

"I like to pressure myself to be the best I can be. It just takes time and dedication." (sundayobserver.lk, 12 Jun 2021)

General Interest

General
OLYMPIC DREAM
At age 11, two years after taking up swimming, she posted '2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo' on the wall of her room in Malaysia. "At the time, it was just a dream. I just wrote for the fun of it. I didn't think it would ever happen. I was just 11. You could say that's where it started. It really started to develop in 2019 when I realised I could break the records and I could go further." (sundayobserver.lk, 12 Jun 2021)

EDUCATION PLAN
She aspires to pursue a sports medicine degree. "I like the way [doctors] understand how the muscles and body works. That's always interested me. I always had the passion to be a sports doctor in the future so that I can relate being an athlete and a doctor at the same time." (sundayobserver.lk, 12 Jun 2021)

Social Media

https://instagram.com/aniqah_gxf/

Legend

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

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