Kimiko Shihara Raheem (born 28 January 1999) is a Sri Lankan national swimmer who has represented her country at several international competitions. She represented her country at the

2016 Olympic Games ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...

in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She won multiple gold medals at the

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in the backstroke and freestyle events. She won the highest number of medals by a Sri Lankan woman at the

in India, and was named Best Female Athlete of the Games by the Bangladesh Sports Press Association. She is the younger sister of Mayumi Raheem and Machiko Raheem both of whom hold national records themselves. She was a semi-finalist at the 100m backstroke event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. She holds numerous Sri Lankan national records and South Asian records in her name. Raheem currently lives in Phuket, Thailand where she trained at the Thanyapura Aquatic Training Centre from mid-2015 leading up to the Olympic Games. This was under a

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scholarship awarded to multiple swimmers from several countries. Cherantha de Silva was the other Sri Lankan swimmer who was given a scholarship by FINA. She went to the British International School in Phuket, but currently is finishing her high school in the United World College of Thailand. She has previously lived in Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Singapore and Qatar. In February 2018, Raheem was named to Sri Lanka's 2018 Commonwealth Games team.

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Commonwealth Games competitors for Sri Lanka Living people 1999 births Swimmers from Colombo Olympic swimmers of Sri Lanka Sri Lankan female swimmers Sri Lankan Malays Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics South Asian Games gold medalists for Sri Lanka South Asian Games silver medalists for Sri Lanka South Asian Games medalists in swimming Female backstroke swimmers Female breaststroke swimmers Sri Lankan female freestyle swimmers {{sriLanka-swimming-bio-stub