Ace Indian swimmer Srihari Nataraj created a countrywide record in 50m backstroke although winning his next gold of the Uzbekistan Open Championship here. The 20-12 months-old clocked 25.11 seconds to bag the major prize in the FINA-accredited Olympic qualifying event on Saturday night.
Indian swimmers savored a wealthy haul of 29 medals — 18 gold, seven silver and 4 bronze — in the meet up with. It was Srihari’s 3rd national document in two times as the Bengaluru swimmer experienced rewritten the nationwide marks 2 times in 100m backstroke, his pet party, previously this 7 days.
In 100m backstroke in which Srihari has previously obtained the ‘B’ standard time for Tokyo Olympics, the Indian experienced clocked his private greatest of 54.10s in the heats before bettering it to 54.07s in the last to get the gold. He skipped the Olympic ‘A’ qualification mark in the function by just .22 seconds. Another Olympic hopeful, Sajan Prakash also dazzled in the meet up with, notching up gold medal-profitable performances in all 4 types he participated in.
On the closing day on Saturday, the Kerala swimmer, who is coming off a shoulder injury, concluded with a time of 53.69s in the 100m butterfly to stand atop the podium. Maana Patel and Suvana Baskar, who clocked a private very best of 30.28 seconds, took property the gold and silver respectively in the women’s 50m backstroke party. Like Srihari, Sajan, the lone male swimmer from the nation to contend at the 2016 Rio Olympics, also fell brief of the Olympic ‘A’ mark for Tokyo Games.
Competing in his pet occasion, the 200m butterfly on Tuesday, Sajan had clocked 1.57.85s, lacking the Olympics ‘A’ cut which is established at 1:56.48s. Though a ‘B’ mark implies the swimmer will obtain an invitation to the celebration if the overall available quota sites are not loaded up, an ‘A’ conventional guarantees an automatic berth to line up at the Tokyo Olympics.
Aside from Sajan and Srihari, four other Indian swimmers — Virdhawal Khade, Kushagra Rawat, Aryan Makhija and Advait Web site — have realized the B normal for Tokyo Olympics in their respective types. No Indian has until day attained the ‘A’ cut for Tokyo Olympics.
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