Felicity Passon
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| Full name | Felicity Elizabeth Passon | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Seychellois | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 July 1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Felicity Elizabeth Passon (born 11 July 1999) is a Seychellois swimmer. She competed in the women's 50-metre freestyle at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships. She represented Seychelles at the 2019 African Games, winning two gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal, and qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Felicity Passon completed a 15-kilometre swim challenge in April 2021 to raise funds for mental health awareness and support. It took her 4 hours 6 minutes to swim from La Digue to Praslin, Seychelles' third and second most populated islands, and then back to La Digue.
She competed at the collegiate level for the University of Arizona in 2021.
In March 2024, Felicity Passon was crowned Seychelles' Sportswoman of the Year 2023. The next year, in July 2024, the Seychelles Aquatic Federation announced her retirement from professional swimming.