Mayumi Raheem

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[edit] Personal life

Mayumi Raheem was born on September 15th, 1991. She is a Sri Lankan national and currently lives in Singapore and attends the United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA). She has previously lived in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. She was a member of Singapore Swimming Club from 2004 until 2007 when her Australian Coach, Jaan Murphy, whom she publicly attributed much of her success too returned to Australia. She then swam for Swim Fast Aquatic under former Singaporean National record holder, David Lim before moving to the Grassroots club under american coach Jack Simon.

She does well at school and recently gave her IGCSE Maths (Accelerated) Examination.

[edit] Swimming career

Mayumi began swimming at the age of 8, and has been swimming ever since. She is an international swimmer and captained Sri Lanka's national swimming team to the Asian Games.

She is an accomplished swimmer who has won gold medals for the Women's 50, 100, and 200 m Breast Stroke at the 2006 South Asian Games. For those games she also won 4 silver medals and 3 bronze medals, a record for any athlete at a single games. She also won a bronze medal for Breast Stroke at the recent Singapore leg of the Swimming World Cup. She also contested a semi-final in the women's 50m breaststroke at the 2006 commonwealth games in Melbourne, Australia and has represented Sri Lanka at the 2005 World Championships, and the 2006 World Short Course Championships. She also holds numerous Sri Lankan national records. In 2006 she placed second at the Singapore National Open Championships behind a US-Based Singaporean athlete to become the fastest women over the 200m Breaststroke based in Singapore. She was coached to the aforementioned accomplishments by Australian coach Jaan Murphy at Singapore swimming club from 2004 to 2007 until his return to Australia. She has been selected to compete at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing for Sri Lanka.