BENGALURU: In the middle of a brilliant run, Siva S of Karnataka set the lone National record on the opening day of the 75th Senior National Aquatic Championships in Guwahati on Tuesday. The Basavanagudi Aquatic Centre swimmer decimated the field en route to the 200m medley gold, clocking 2:05.64 to erase Sajan Prakash’s record of 2:05.83 set in 2018 in Thiruvananthapuram.
The gulf in competition was evident as Benedicton Rohit B of Tamil Nadu came in over three seconds behind in second place (2:08.93). Swadesh Mondal (2:10.99) of Services settled for the bronze.
Siva had come into the premier championships on the back of a sterling show at the State championships last month, where he set two meet records. Siva picked up another gold later in the day.
The BAC lad swam the anchor leg in Karnataka’s victory in the 4x200m freestyle relay. Shivank Vishwanath, Dhyan Balakrishna and Prithvi M were the other members of the gold-winning team. Manavi Varma clinched the third gold for Karnataka in the women’s 200m medley. She and Disha Bhandari touched the pad in an identical time of two minutes 27.28 seconds.
Karnataka also won two silver medals through Vihitha Nayana (50m breaststroke) and Shivank Vishwanath (400m freestyle) and two bronze medals (Manavi Varma, 50m breaststroke) and mixed 4x50m medley relay.
Results: Men: 50m breaststroke: 1. Likith SP (SSCB, 28.71); 2. Danush Suresh (TN, 29.24); Shwejal Mankar (Mah, 29.28). 200m medley: 1. Siva S (Kar, 2:05.64, NR – Old: 2:05.83, Sajan Prakash, Trivandrum, 2018); Benedicton Rohit B (TN, 2:08.93); Swadesh Monadal (SSCB, 2:10.99). 400m freestyle: 1. Vishal Grewal (Del, 4:03.55); 2. Shivank Vishwanath (Kar, 4:09.02); 3. Yug Chelani (Raj, 4:10.63). 4x200 freestyle relay: 1. Karnataka (Shivank Vishwanath, Dhyan Balakrishna, Prithvi M, Siva S, 7:54.39); 2. SSCB-2 (7:56.40); 3. RSPB-1 (7:57.74).Women: 50m breaststroke: Chahat Arora (Pun, 33.22); Vihitha Nayana (Kar, 34.77); 3. Manavi Varma (Kar, 35.04). 200m medley: 1. Manavi Varma (Kar) & Disha Bhandari (UP, 2:27.28); 3. Richa Mishra (Pol, 2:28.73). 400m freestyle: Bhavya Sachdeva (Del, 4:30.25); 2. Vritti Agarwal (Tel, 4:33.25); 3. Shivangi Sarma (Asm, 4:35.83); Mixed 4x50 medley: 1. Gujarat-1 (Maana Patel, Dishant Mehta, Anshul Kothari, Diya Patel, 1:52.67); 2. Assam-1 (1:53.65); Karnataka-1 (Siva S, Pruthik DS, Tanishi Gupta, Latiesha Mandanna, 154,64).
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