Gaurika Singh Height, Weight, Age, Biography & More

Bio
Real Name	Gaurika Singh
Nickname	Not Known
Profession	Nepalese swimmer
Physical Stats & More
Height	in centimeters- 155 cm in meters- 1.55 m in Feet Inches- 5’ 1”
Weight	in Kilograms- 45 kg in Pounds- 99 lbs
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black
Swimming
National Team	Nepal
International Debut	On 3rd August 2015 at the World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia.
Coach/Mentor	Rhys Gormley, Christine Green
Strokes	Freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, medley
Club	Copthall Swimming Club
Records (main ones)	• At the 19th National Open Swimming Championship, she broke 8 national records in 7 events. • In the 2015 National Open Swimming Championship, she broke national records in all 6 events she participated. • When she was selected for the 2016 Rio Olympics, she became the youngest Olympian in Rio at the age of 13.
Career Turning Point	When she won Bronze Medal at the 12th South Asian Games in Guwahati, India.
Personal Life
Date of Birth	26 November 2002
Age (as in 2016)	14 Years
Birth Place	Nepal
Zodiac sign/Sun sign	Sagittarius
Nationality	Nepalese
Hometown	Lives in London, United Knigdom
School	Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, Elstree, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
College	N/A
Educational Qualifications	Studying at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, Elstree, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Family	Father- Paras Singh Mother- Garima Rana Brother- Sauren Sisters- N/A
Religion	Hinduism
Ethnicity	Nepalese
Hobbies	Music, Video Games, Traveling
Favourite Things
Favourite Swimmer	Katinka Hosszú (Hungarian Swimmer)
Boys, Family & More
Marital Status	Unmarried
Sexual Orientation	Straight
Husband	N/A
Children	Daughter- N/A Son- N/A

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.