{"id":"chitra-bahadur-gurung","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chitra-bahadur-gurung","language":"en","name":"Chitra Bahadur Gurung","name_en":"Chitra Bahadur Gurung","name_ne":"चित्रबहादुर गुरुङ","description":"Nepalese swimmer","headline":"Nepalese swimmer","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Chitra Bahadur Gurung (Nepali: चित्रबहादुर गुरुङ) (May 21, 1970 – November 22, 2010) was a Nepalese former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Gurung represented Nepal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where he became the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony. He also held a Nepalese record in the 50 m freestyle.","summary_more":["Gurung competed only in the men's 50 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He received a ticket from FINA, under a Universality program, in an entry time of 27.28. He challenged six other swimmers in heat one, including 16-year-olds Wael Ghassan of Qatar and Hassan Mubah of the Maldives. Diving in with a 0.87-second deficit, Gurung scorched the field to register a second-seeded time and a personal best of 27.02. Gurung failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed sixty-ninth overall out of 80 swimmers in the prelims.","On November 22, 2010, Gurung died in Falls Church, Virginia, as informed by the Nepal National and International Players' Association. The reason of his untimely demise was still under investigation."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"21 May 1970","date":"1970-05-21"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16018773#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Kathmandu","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3037","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16018773#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"22 November 2010","date":"2010-11-22"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16018773#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Falls Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q408744"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16018773#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16018773#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"swimmer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10843402"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16018773#P106"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitra_Bahadur_Gurung","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16018773"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Chitra Bahadur Gurung born?","a":"Chitra Bahadur Gurung was born on 21 May 1970 in Kathmandu."}],"related":[{"name":"Jitu Rai","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jitu-rai"},{"name":"Binod Bhandari","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/binod-bhandari"},{"name":"Dipendra Singh Airee","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dipendra-singh-airee"},{"name":"Jitendra Mukhiya","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jitendra-mukhiya"},{"name":"Karan KC","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/karan-kc"},{"name":"Sagar Pun","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/sagar-pun"},{"name":"Aditya Chaudhary","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/aditya-chaudhary"},{"name":"Ananta Tamang","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ananta-tamang"},{"name":"Anil Mandal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/anil-mandal"},{"name":"Jagajeet Shrestha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jagajeet-shrestha"},{"name":"Kushal Bhurtel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kushal-bhurtel"},{"name":"Mahesh Chhetri","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mahesh-chhetri"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Chitra Bahadur Gurung","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitra_Bahadur_Gurung","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q16018773","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16018773","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Chitra Bahadur Gurung, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Chitra Bahadur Gurung\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/chitra-bahadur-gurung. Retrieved 8 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T14:57:58Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-08","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/chitra-bahadur-gurung","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/chitra-bahadur-gurung","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/chitra-bahadur-gurung?lang=ne"}}