Bhopal, August 08 (Pervez Bari): Karnataka swimmers, the defending champions, continued their domination as they led from the front in the medals tally with 11 gold, eight silver and 10 bronze medals on the second day in the ongoing 38th Junior National Aquatic Championship at the Prakash Taran Pushkar pool here on Saturday.
Maharashtra with 9 gold, 6 silver and 5 bronze medals while Tamil Nadu with 6 gold, 6 silver and 9 bronze medals are placed second and third respectively in the medals tally. On the second day Karnataka and Tamil Nadu bagged six and five gold medals each out of the total 16 that were at stake. Swimmers of Bengal, Punjab, Delhi, Gujarat and Maharashtra also won a gold medal each.
Two National records one each by Saurabh Sangvekar of Karnataka in the Group I Boys’ 1500 meter freestyle and Viraj Prabhu of Maharashtra in 50 meter breaststroke were re-written on Saturday. Seventeen-year-old Saurabh improved the timing by 9 seconds when he clocked 16:08.80 minutes to garner gold medal and thereby breaking the national record set by state-mate Gagan A.P. in 2009. Gagan’s timing was 16:17.22. This was Saurabh’s second yellow metal haul as on Friday he took home the 200 freestyle title. While Viraj Prabhu also broke a National record set by J. Agnishwar of Tamil Nadu in 2004 in 50 meter breaststroke who had the timing of 00:33:18. Vijay clocked 00:33.14 to set a new record.
Priyanka Priyadarshini of Delhi shattered the Senior National record in the Group I 50M breaststroke. However, this effort of hers was in the heats when she posted a timing of 35.23 seconds. The previous mark of 35.63 was created by Saba Sait of Tamil Nadu in 2004 while the previous Junior National record of 36.22 was set by Lekha Kamat of Maharashtra in 2007. In the final Priyanka could manage a timing of 35.79 for the gold medal. On Friday she twice broke the Junior National record in the 100 meter breaststroke.
Another record was lowered in the heats when Himanshu Dhakad of hosts Madhya Pradesh broke the National record of Virdhawal Khade in 50 meter freestyle by clocking 00:25:85. However, Himanshu was defeated in the finals by Deshdeep who clocked 00:25.89 while he had a poor timing of 00:26.15 to take silver medal. While Asmit Goyal of Madhya Pradesh won a bronze medal in the 50 meter breaststroke clocking 00:32:75
In the water-polo competitions, Kerala routed Madhya Pradesh 10-0, Karnataka boys eased past Manipur 9-3 while their girls went down to Maharashtra 4-10. Maharashtra beat Punjab 12-2, Bengal beat Delhi 7-1.
The second day results in detail are as follows:
Event 17 – 1500 MT. FREE STYLE – BOYS Group: I
Record: GAGAN A. P. 16:17:22 KARNATAKA 2009
I SAURABH SANGVEKAR KARNATAKA 16:08:80 0.00 N.R.
II SANU DEBNATH BENGAL 16:30:08 0.00
III SACHIN KUMAR MAURYA UTTAR PRADESH 17:13:81 0.00
Event 18 – 800 MT. FREE STYLE – BOYS Group: II
Record: AARON D’SOUZA 09:01:41 KARNATAKA 2006
I VEDANT RAO MAHARASHTRA 09:17:12 0.00
II MD. YAQOOB SALEEM KARNATAKA 09:18:01 0.00
III SUDHANSHU SHARMA MAHARASHTRA 09:25:50 0.00
Event 19 – 400 MT. FREE STYLE – GIRLS Group: I
Record: SURABHI TIPRE 04:34:04 MAHARASTRA 2010
I KANCHI DESAI MAHARASHTRA 04:39:29 0.00
II ANUSHA MEHTA TAMILNADU 04:41:62 0.00
III PRATIMA KOLLALI KARNATAKA 04:44:20 0.00
Event 20 – 400 MT. FREE STYLE – GIRLS Group: II
Record: KANCHI DESAI 04:39:68 MAHARASTRA 2010
I MONIQUE GANDHI MAHARASHTRA 04:42:16 0.00
II ASHRITHA N. BHARADWAJ KARNATAKA 04:43:28 0.00
III MALAVIKA V. KARNATAKA 04:48:81 0.00
Event 21 – 200 MT. BUTTERFLY – BOYS Group: I
Record: ARJUN MURLIDHARAN 02:09:07 MAHARASTRA 2004
I MITESH MANOJ KUNTE KARNATAKA 02:10:41 0.00
II RAHUL CHOKSHI GUJARAT 02:12:55 0.00
III SANU DEBNATH BENGAL 02:13:98 0.00
Event 22 – 200 MT. BUTTERFLY – BOYS Group: II
Record: AARON D’SOUZA 02:12:09 KARNATAKA 2006
I SUPRIYA MONDAL BENGAL 02:18:46 0.00
II S. K. ADARSH NARAYAN TAMILNADU 02:20:44 0.00
III NIKHIL RAJARAM KARNATAKA 02:23:76 0.00
Event 23 – 200 MT. BUTTERFLY – GIRLS Group: I
Record: POOJA R. ALVA 02:27:00 KARNATAKA 2007
I ARHATHA MAGAVI KARNATAKA 02:28:46 0.00
II VANDITA DHARIYAL GUJARAT 02:31:29 0.00
III S. DHARSHINI TAMILNADU 02:34:33 0.00
Event 24 – 200 MT. BUTTERFLY – GIRLS Group: II
Record: ARHATHA MAGHAVI 02:24:22 KARNATAKA 2008
I AAKANKSHA VORA MAHARASHTRA 02:30:09 0.00
II SHERLYN MEGHNA DEVADASON TAMILNADU 02:30:44 0.00
III SIMRAN DEEPAK M. KARNATAKA 02:36:51 0.00
Event 25 – 50 MT. BREAST STROKE – BOYS Group: I
Record: J. AGNISHWAR 00:30:57 TAMILNADU 2007(H)
I AKASH ROHIT KARNATAKA 00:32:25 0.00
II AMAN GHAI PUNJAB 00:32:39 0.00
III ASMIT GOYAL MADHYA 00:32:75 0.00
Event 26 – 50 MT. BREAST STROKE – BOYS Group: II
Record: J. AGNISHWAR 00:33:18 TAMILNADU 2004
I VIRAJ PRABHU MAHARASHTRA 00:33:14 0.00 N.R.
II LIKITH S. P. KARNATAKA 00:33:44 0.00
III DEEPAK KUMAR MAURYA UTTAR PRADESH 00:33:74 0.00
Event 27 – 50 MT. BREAST STROKE – GIRLS Group: I
Record: PRIYANKA PRIYDRSHNI 00:35:23 DELHI 2011(H)
I PRIYANKA PRIYDRSHNI DELHI 00:35:79 0.00
II DIVYA GURUSWAMY KARNATAKA 00:36:17 0.00
III GAURI DESAI MAHARASHTRA 00:36:29 0.00
Event 28 – 50 MT. BREAST STROKE – GIRLS Group: II
Record: PRIYANKA PRIDRSHNI 00:35:71 DELHI 2010
I A. V. JAYAVEENA TAMILNADU 00:36:11 0.00
II CHARU HAMSINI D. A. KARNATAKA 00:37:03 0.00
III MONIQUE GANDHI MAHARASHTRA 00:37:35 0.00
Event 29 – 50 MT. FREE STYLE – BOYS Group: I
Record: VEERDHAVAL KHADE 00:23:21 MAHARASTRA 2008
I NEIL CONTRACTOR GUJARAT 00:25:14 0.00
II JAYWANT VIJAY KUMAR TAMILNADU 00:25:22 0.00
III M. BALAJI TAMILNADU 00:25:65 0.00
Event 30 – 50 MT. FREE STYLE – BOYS Group: II
Record: HIMANSHU DHAKAD 00:25:85 MADHYA PRADESH 2011(H)
I DESHDEEP GHAI PUNJAB 00:25:89 0.00
II HIMANSHU DHAKAD MADHYA 00:26:15 0.00
III M ANANDHAN TAMILNADU 00:26:58 0.00
Event 31 – 50 MT. FREE STYLE – GIRLS Group: I
Record: TALASHA PRABHU 00:27:49 GOA 2010
I SNEHA T. KARNATAKA 00:28:27 0.00
II PRIYANKA PRIYDRSHNI DELHI 00:28:64 0.00
III R. SUSHMITHA TAMILNADU 00:28:70 0.00
Event 32 – 50 MT. FREE STYLE – GIRLS Group: II
Record: SNEHA T. 00:28:12 KARNATAKA 2009
I AVANTIKA CHAVAN MAHARASHTRA 00:28:30 0.00
II SHIVANI KATARIA HARYANA 00:28:40 0.00
III A. V. JAYAVEENA TAMILNADU 00:28:64 0.00 (pervezbari@eth.net)