Sambhavv R (centre) within the medal rite of 50m freestyle for males on the Swimming Nationals in Bengaluru.
Karnataka’s 17-year-old Sambhavv R stole the limelight with a sensational swim within the 50m freestyle for males, which is the quickest race on the ongoing 74th Senior Nationwide Aquatic Championships 2021 right here on the Basavangudi Aquatic Centre (BAC) on Thursday. Sambhavv, who trains on the Bangalore Swimmers Analysis Centre below trainer Jairajan, clocked 23.65 seconds to win the gold forward of Maharashtra’s Mihir Ambre who timed 23.76 seconds whilst his state-mate Heer Shah touched pads at 23.93 seconds to take house the silver.
Sambhavv, who received 4 golds, one bronze on the not too long ago concluded 47TH Junior Nationwide Aquatic Championships, stunned his senior compatriots as he ruled the dash match proper from the beginning. Whilst the race remained even between 5 swimmers who all clocked inside 24 seconds-mark, Sambhavv got here up with an excellent end to clinch the gold. “I used to be reasonably assured of doing neatly. I had timed 23.5 seconds within the Junior Nationals closing week to win the race so I used to be lovely certain I had a powerful likelihood. I assumed Srihari (Nataraj) would participate on this match, and I used to be anticipating him to be my hardest pageant, however he didn’t participate,” mentioned Sambhavv after profitable his first-ever gold on the Senior Nationwide Championships.
“That is my 2d look on the Senior meet nevertheless it’s my first gold medal so I’m in point of fact glad despite the fact that this isn’t my private very best time,” mentioned an elated Sambhavv.
Within the 200m butterfly for males, two-time Olympian Sajan Prakash was once unchallenged as he went directly to win the gold with a at ease lead of over 5 seconds. He clocked 1:58.74 to win the gold for Kerala Police whilst Aryan Panchal of Gujarat received the silver with a time of two:04.41 seconds and Bikram Changmai of Assam received the bronze with a time of two:05.58 seconds.
Delhi’s Kushagra Rawat, in the meantime, rewrote but some other nationwide document within the 1500m freestyle for males. He timed 15:38.13 seconds to sink his personal document of 15:41.45 seconds set in 2019. Aneesh Gowda of Karnataka completed 2d with a time of 16:11.42 seconds and Vedaant Madhavan of Maharashtra took house the bronze with a time of 16:15.13 seconds.
