NEW DELHI: Indian swimmer Srihari Nataraj concluded the men's 50m backstroke final at the Asian Games on Monday, securing the sixth position.
Nataraj, participating in his second consecutive final within two days, recorded a time of 25.39 seconds. It's worth noting that if he had matched his personal best of 24.40 seconds, he would have earned the bronze medal.
The day prior, he also finished sixth in the men's 100m backstroke final.
Likith Selvaraj, on the other hand, achieved the seventh position in the men's 100m breaststroke event, touching the wall at 1:01.62 seconds, a slight improvement from his heats time of 1:01.98 seconds.
It was a seventh place finish for the Indian team in the men's 4x200m freestyle event as well.
The quartet of Aryan Nehra, Aneesh Gowda, Kushagra Rawat and Tanish George Mathew clocked 7:29.23s.
The in-form Aryan was the fastest among the four as he swam his 200m in 1:51.89s.
Earlier in the day, former bronze medallist Virdhawal Khade (men's 50m freestyle), Olympian Maana Patel (women's 50m backstroke), Anil Kumar Shylaja Anand (men's 50m freestyle), Desinghu Dhinidhi (women's 200m freestyle) and Hashika Ramachandra (women's 200m individual medley) all failed to enter the finals in their respective events.
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