Maharashtra Wins Women’s C’ship Award
Maharashtra won the women’s championship with 148 points underlying the strong overall performance from the Girls at the 70th Glenmark Senior National Aquatic Championship 2016. The Swimming team championship was won by Railways in the Men’s with a total of 175 points, Karnataka won the overall swimming championships with 246 points.
Aditi Dhumatkar won Gold medal in the 100m Freestyle Senior Women’s category in the time of 00:29.14 sec beating Olympian Shivani Kataria of Haryana who won the Silver medal in the time of 00:59.50 sec and another Maharashtra Swimmer Rayna Saldhan has won the Bronze medal in the time of 00:59.91 sec.
The Second Event of the day was the 100m Breaststroke which saw Sandeep Sejwal of Railways continued his fine form to win with a time of 01:02.12.
Madhu P.S. of services broke his own record to establish a New national record in the 50m Backstroke men with a time of 26.73.
Aaron Dsouza of the Railways won the highly
The final event of the competition was the exciting 4*50 Freestyle Mixed relay featuring 2 girls and 2 boys. Maharashtra featuring
competitive 100m freestyle with a time of 51.65.
Madhu P.S. of Services won 2 Gold 1 Silver and created 2 new national records with a total of 19 points to be crowned the best swimmer in the Men’s Category while Manaa Patel of Gujarat who won 3 Gold and 1 Bronze and created 1 new national record with a total of 25 points was crowned the best female swimmer. Nimish Muley, Aditi Dhumatkar, Avantika Chawan and Viraj Prabhu claimed gold with a time of 1:42.91 sec. Karnataka won
The Swimming team championship was won by Railways in the Mens with a total of 175 points, while Maharashtra won the women’s championship with 148 points underlying the strong overall performance from the Girls. Karnataka won the ovewrall swimming championships with 246 points.
In the Diving championships the Services silver with a time of 01:44.20 sec while Gujarat won bronze with a time of 01:44.33 sec.
Jyotsna Pahsare wins the Silver medal in the 50m Backstroke Senior Women category in 00:30.91 sec and Avantika Chavan wins the Bronze medal in the time of 00:31.63 sec. The Gold medal was won by Maana Patel of Gujarat in a time of 00:31.75 sec.
Women’s Monique Gandhi wins a Bronze medal in 800m Freestyle Senior Women category at the time of 09:44.14 sec. Gold medal was won by Shruti Mahalingam of Tamil Nadu in the time 09:40.63 sec and Preksha H M of Karnataka wins Silver medal in the time of 09:42.12 sec.
team won the men’s championships with a total of 33 points while the railways won the women’s championship with 27 points.
In the water polo events in the men’s category Railways won the gold, Services the silver and Police won the bronze. In the Women’s section Kerala won the Gold, Maharashtra the Silver while Bengal won the bronze.