This 19-year-old Pakistani Olympian will give you #goals

Sharmeen Obaid turns spotlight on Lianna Swan who is representing Pakistan in 50m freestyle event at Olympics

After the first episode of the Dream Big Pakistan project, the second episode of the video series features swimmer Lianna Swan, 19, who is currently representing Pakistan at the Rio Olympics 2016 as a wild card entrant.



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"To get into the Olympics, you really have to put in the work and hours."

"It's not necessarily why I am doing this to get to the Olympics myself. I am also doing this for the girls in Pakistan because if they see me doing it and if they've seen me swim, they see me train and they seen me being able to go to the Olympics they know that there's no reason why they can't make it to the Olympics as well."

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Lianna specialises in breaststroke and freestyle and currently holds seven national records in swimming. Lianna has been representing Pakistan internationally since 2010.

She will be competing with seven other swimmers in her heat, with a total of 92 swimmers in the category vying to earn a berth in the semi-finals, reports The Express Tribune.



She has competed in the Asian Games, the Fina World Cup (Dubai 2011), Fina World Aquatics Championships (Barcelona 2013) and the FINA World Championships August 2015, held in Kazan- Russia.
Most recently, she won the Gold Medal at the South Asian Games held in India in February 2016.

Watch the short film here:


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