Gaurika Singh

Gaurika Singh, born on 26 November 2002, is a Nepalese swimmer who has held many national records since she began swimming at the age of eight. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the women's 100 metre backstroke at 13 years and 255 days, the youngest athlete at those Games, and returned at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the 100 metre freestyle, where she set a national record but did not reach the semifinals. At the South Asian Games she won two silver and three bronze medals in 2016 and four gold medals in 2019, a record for a single edition held in Nepal. She trains in London at the Camden Swiss Cottage Swimming Club, studied at Tufts University, and was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list for 2021.