Aniqah Gaffoor

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Aniqah Gaffoor
Personal information
Born (2004-01-23) 23 January 2004 (age 17)
Sport
SportSwimming
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Sri Lanka
South Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2019 Kathmandu 4 × 100 m relay medley
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Kathmandu 100 m butterfly

Aniqah Gaffoor (born 23 January 2004)[1] is a Sri Lankan swimmer.

Life[]

She was born in 2004. While she was at school at the United World College Thailand her training schedule started at 4:30 in the morning on every day but Sundays.[2]

In 2019, she represented Sri Lanka at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea.[1] She competed in the women's 50 metre butterfly and women's 100 metre butterfly events.[3][4] In the same year, she also won one silver medal and one bronze medal at the 2019 South Asian Games.

In 2021 it was announced that she would be going to the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Entry list" (PDF). 2019 World Aquatics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 July 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  2. ^ Com, The Phuket News (2019-12-30). "Phuket Sport: UWC swimming champ has Tokyo 2020 in her sights". The Phuket News Com. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Women's 50 metre butterfly – Heats" (PDF). 2019 World Aquatics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 July 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Women's 100 metre butterfly – Heats" (PDF). 2019 World Aquatics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  5. ^ "No athletics representation for Sri Lanka at Tokyo Olympics? | Daily FT". www.ft.lk. Retrieved 21 June 2021.

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