Gaurika Singh

Some Lesser Known Facts About Gaurika Singh

• Gaurika Singh was born in Nepal and at the age of two she moved to London along-with her family.

• Her mother, Garima Rana, is the 1994 SLC Board Topper.

• She takes her training at Copthall Swimming Club in London under coaches Christine Green and Rhys Gormley, who are known to have produced world-class swimmers.

• Gaurika started competing in the Nepal Championships at the age of eleven.

• She has won many awards and has broken many national records since the beginning of her swimming career at a very young age.

• At the 2016, South Asian Games, she won 1 silver and 2 bronze medals.

• According to her father, Paras Rana, Gaurika gets up at 4:00 a.m. each day.

• In April 2015, when a massive earthquake hit the Nepal, Gaurika was in Kathmandu along-with her mother and little brother Sauren. She explains- “We were on the fifth floor of a building that we couldn’t escape from, so we sheltered under a table for 10 minutes in the middle of the room and had to go down the stairs afterwards amid the aftershocks.”

• She contributed 200 pounds sterling (from the earnings of national championships) for the Nepal earthquake victims.

• In June 2015, she became the Goodwill Ambassador of the Shanti Education Initiative Nepal (SEIN). 

• In 2016, she was selected for the Rio Olympics to represent Nepal and became the youngest Olympian in Rio.