Swimming’s Shah Qualifies for 2024 Paris Olympics – Fordham University Athletics

Bronx, N.Y. – (February 19, 2024) – For the second time in his swimming career, Fordham swimmer Alexander Shah will represent his home country of Nepal at the Summer Olympic Games.
 
Shah qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, following his performance at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar.
 
Shah finished 58^th out of 116 swimmers in the 50-meter freestyle in 23.79 seconds and 62^nd out of 108 swimmers in the 100-meter freestyle in 52.17 seconds.  He set new personal-best times in both events, besting his marks of 23.89 seconds in the 50-meter freestyle and 52.94 seconds in the 100-meter freestyle from the 2023 World Aquatics Championship in Fukuoka, Japan.
 
Previously, he took part in the Tokyo Olympics for Nepal, competing in the 100-meter freestyle.
 
For Fordham this year, Shah has served as a team co-captain, leading the men’s squad to an 8-1 dual meet record.  He has been a part of Fordham’s top 200 freestyle and 200 medley relays with the 200 medley relay setting the school record at the Bucknell Invitational in December at 1:28.04.  Individually, he holds times of 20.49 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle, which is seventh best in the Atlantic 10 this season, and 45.23 seconds in the 100-yard freestyle, which is 12^th in the conference.