S. Siva set a brand new meet report within the 200m particular person medley and bagged two gold medals and a bronze on the opening day of the Nationwide aquatic championships on the Zakir Hussain Aquatic Complicated right here on Tuesday.
Regardless of heavy rains and excessive humidity, the 21-year-old Karnataka swimmer, who had claimed a silver final 12 months, clocked 2:05.64 to go away Sajan Prakash’s 2018 efficiency of two:05.83 behind. Siva had clocked 2:05.43 within the Khelo India College Video games in April final.
Siva was additionally a part of the Karnataka staff that gained the boys’s 4x200m freestyle relay and received a bronze within the blended 4x50m medley.
“I get nearer to the qualifying mark of the Asian Video games. I’m doing the 400m medley to enhance my endurance and it’ll assist higher my timing within the 200m medley,” mentioned Siva.
Chahat units new report
Chahat Arora set a brand new report of 32.94, bettering her personal mark of 33.62 in final 12 months’s meet in Bengaluru, in girls’s 50m breaststroke heats. She went on to say the title as effectively.
The outcomes: Males: 400m freestyle: 1. Vishal Grewal (Del) 4:03.55, 2. Shivank Vishwanath (Kar) 4:09.02, 3. Yug Chelani (Raj) 4:01.63; 50m breaststroke: 1. Likith S.P. (SSCB) 28.71, Danush Suresh (TN) 29.24, 3. Shwejal Mankar (Mah) 29.28; 200m medley: 1. Siva S. (Kar) 2:05.64 (NMR), 2. Benedicton Rohit B. (TN) 2:08.93, 3. Swadesh Mondal (SSCB) 2:10.99; 4x200m relay: 1. Karnataka (Shivank, Dhyan Balakrishna, Prithvi M., Siva S.) 7:54.39, 2. SSCB (Kuntal Giri, Aniket Chavan, Unnikrishnan, S. Rudrash, Manoj Mishra) 7:56.40, 3. RSPB (Emil Robin Singh, Sushrut Suryakant Kapse, Soumyajit Saha, Sanu Debnath) 7:57.74.
Girls: 400m freestyle: 1. Bhavya Sachdeva (Del) 4:30.25, 2. Vritti Agarwal (Tel) 4:33.25, 3. Shivangi Sarma (Asm) 4:35.83; 50m breaststroke: 1. Chahat Arora (Pun) 33.22, 2. Vihitha Nayana (Kar) 34.77, 3. Manavi Varma (Kar) 35.04; 200m medley: 1. Disha Bhandari (U.P.) and Manavi Varma (Kar) 2:27.28, 3. Richa Mishra (AIP) 2:28.73; 4x50m blended relay: 1. Gujarat (Maana Patel, Dishant Mehta, Anshul Kothari, Diya Patel) 1:52.67, 2. Assam (Jananjoy Jyoti Hazarika, Bhargav Phukan, Astha Choudhary, Shivangi Sarma) 1:53.65, 3. Karnataka (Siva S., Pruthvik D.S., Tanishi Gupta, Latiesha Mandanna) 1:54.64.
