Maharashtra’s Vedaant Madhavan rewrote the national record in the 1500m freestyle event for group I boys at the ongoing 48th Junior National Aquatic Championships being held at the Biju Patnaik Swimming Pool in the iconic Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar.
Leading the pack with a good pace and an efficient stroke, Vedaant clocked 16:01.73 to erase his state-mate Advait Page’s record of 16:06.43 seconds which was created in the year 2017. He beat Karnataka’s Amogh Anand Venkatesh who timed 16:21:98 seconds and Bengal’s Shubhojeet Gupta who touched pads at 16:34:06 to win the bronze.
In the 400m freestyle for group II girls, Karnataka’s Harshika Ramachandra created a new meet record with a time of 4:29.25 seconds, while Rujula S, also of Karnataka, finished ten seconds behind Harshika with a time of 4:39.53 seconds to settle for silver. Harshika met another meet record in the 200m butterfly event. She eclipsed Apeksha Fernandes’ three-year-old record of 2:23.67 to win the gold. Harshika clocked 2:23.20 seconds to finish ahead of Karnataka’s Tanishi Gupta who clocked 2:28:54 seconds, and Telangana’s Mokshitha Addanki.
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