Thiruvananthapuram, October 10: Karnataka clinched both the men’s and women’s team titles in the 63rd Senior National Aquatic Championships at the LNCPE pool near here today.
Karnataka, who retained the overall championship title bagging 18 golds, 17 silvers and eight bronze medals, finished their journey in the six-day event with 318 points in their kitty.
The newly constructed swimming pool witnessed the sinking of 26 existing marks out of 40 events.
Maharashtra finished second with 175 points, claiming seven gold, seven silver and 10 bronze medals, followed by Police (124) with seven golds, seven silver and four bronze medals.
Star swimmer Rehan, who bettered five records during the event, was adjudged the best of the meet. In women’s section, 25 year-old Delhi Police Inspector Richa Mishra bagged the honour with 33 points after creating three new marks in the event.
In the diving event held at Water Works swimming pool, Railways claimed both men and women team championships with 34 and 21 points respectively.
The Railwaymen won the water polo championship in the men’s section, while Maharashtra claimed the women’s title.
Both the teams defeated hosts Kerala in the final.
Mandar A Divase of Police set a new mark in 1,500mt freestyle clocking 16:06:64 improving his own mark of 16:17:07 set in 2008.
Erasing her own mark of 05:04:84 set two years back, Mishra clocked 05:02:96 to clinch gold in 400 metre individual medley for women.
—PTI