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Faye Sultan is the first woman from Kuwait to ever swim at the Olympic games.
Seventeen-year-old Faye Sultan made history as the first woman from Kuwait to ever swim in the Olympics this summer in London.
Sultan began taking swim lessons at age nine and proceeded to begin swimming competitively when she was fourteen.
Of her training leading up to the games, Sultan explains "I was training about five to six hours a day for five days a week. I only had three hours of training on one day and I had one day that was completely off."
Her grueling training earned her a ticket to the Olympics where she competed in the 50 meter freestyle. She competed in this event because she is a sprinter and her best event, the 50 meter backstroke, is not held at the Olympics.
Sultan swam a 27.92 second race and achieved her goal of ranking among the top 50. Though she did not reach the finals, the seventeen year-old's career is just beginning.
Sultan explains that she is definitely aiming for the Rio Olympics in 2016, and will be attending Williams College starting this fall, where she will be swimming under Coach Kuster.
Of being the first woman to ever swim in the Olympics for Kuwait, a country where women received the right to vote in 2005, Sultan says "I felt so proud and honored…and a little nervous!"
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