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National records

Sudeshna Ghosh, National records tumble on Day 3, Sep 27 2016 : The Times of India, Sudeshna Ghosh, SWIMMING - Saloni sinks 19-year-old national mark, Sep 28 2016 : The Times of India and other sources

50m backstroke, men

2016: Madhu PS bettered his own mark of 26.86sec in the men's 50m backstroke set at the South Asian Games in Guwahati early 2016. Madhu clocked 26.73sec.

50m backstroke, women

2016: Maana Patel, sank the national record in 50m backstroke in the heats clock ing 29.89sec, swam to slower timing (30.06) in the evening but her efforts were enough to win her the gold and erase her own record of 30.06 set this year.

100m Backstroke Senior Men

2016: Madhu Ps (SSCB) set a new national record with a time 00:57.95, re-writing his own National Record of 00:57.95 set in 2014 in the event 100m Backstroke Senior Men.

100m butterfly, men

2016: Sajan Prakash, The Railways contender swam to a national record when he won the gold in a closely-contested 100m butterfly with a timing of 54.43 seconds.

100m butterfly, boys

01:16.24 Swadesh Mondal, 2021 Oct

01:16.67 Sahil Hooda, 2014.

200m backstroke, men

2016: The most exciting national record came in the men 200m backstroke. Services' Madhu PS (who had scripted a national record a few Days before), took the lead in the first 50m.But by the end of the first 100m, he had conceded the lead to Karnataka's Arvind Mani who maintained his lead and won in a time of 2:05.56, thereby breaking the record mark set by Rohit Havaldar in 2013.

200m breaststroke, women

2016: All three medal winners of the women's 200m breaststroke bettered the national mark at the 70th Senior National Aquatic Championships. Karnataka's Saloni Dalal, who was the first to stop the clock at 2:44.37 seconds, broke the 19-year-old national record of 2:46.39 seconds set by Sajani Shetty .

The 13-year-old also smashed the meet record of 2:46.49sec set by Tejaswini V in 2006 en route the gold. Bengal's Sayani Ghosh with a timing of 2:45.09sec and Karnataka's Harshita Jayaram 2:45.48sec settled for silver and bronze medal, respectively . The efforts from both the swimmers was better than the then existing national record.

200m Butterfly, Men

2016: Olympian Sajan Prakash created a New National Record of 1:59.35 in the event of 200m Butterfly, Men, re-writing the National Record of Aaron D'Souza (2:00.90) set in 2013.

200m freestyle, women

2016: Rio Olympian Shivani Kataria swam the 200m freestyle in 2:06.97 seconds to break the record set by Richa Mishra in 2011.

200 IM Boys group 3

02:26.73. Swadesh Mondal, 2021 Oct

02:28.85 Swadesh Mondal: the most complete swimmer in that age category. 2021 Oct

400m Medley, Men

400m medley

4:34.15: Swadesh Mondal, 2021

4:34.76 Advait Page, Pune, 2018

4x100m Freestyle Medley, Men

2016: Team R.S.P.B created a National Record on Day 2 in the event of 4x100m Freestyle Medley, Men with a timing of 03:48.95.

4x50m medley, mixed

2016: The Gujarat men and women showed a lot of character in winning the 4x50m medley with a timing of 1:53.42.

 National Senior Swimming Championship

2018

Sajan sets two national records

Manoj S, Sajan steals the show with two national records, September 21, 2018: The Times of India

Sajan Prakash set the pools on fire on the opening day of the 72nd National Senior Swimming Championship in Pirappancode with two national record performances. The 25-year-old from Maniyarankudi in Idukki set new timings in men’s 200m freestyle and 200m medley.

In the former, Sajan was in a fierce battle with teen swimming sensation Srihari Nataraj of Karnataka. Sajan had to wait till the last turn of the last lap, to take the lead and he touched first with a new time of 1 minute 50.35 seconds. The old record of 1:51.38s was set by Aaron d’Souza in 2011.

Srihari (1:51.49s) took silver while Aaryan Makhija, (1:52.47s) representing the Swimming Federation of India, bagged bronze.

In 200m medley, Sajan, competing in the event for the first time, finished with a new time of 2:05.83s. The old record was 2:05.89s, set by Rehan Poncha in 2009. Sanu Debnath (2:05.06s), Supriya Mondal (2:09.83s) were second and third.

More records broken

Records tumble as Sajan and Saloni claim top honours in Nationals, September 24, 2018: The Times of India

Advait Page broke an eight-year-old national record by winning the 800m freestyle event on the concluding day of the National Aquatic Championship. Page, holder of the best Indian record in the 800 m Freestyle, and Kushagra Rawat were neck to neck in till the 650 m mark and clearly leading the pack.

Page used his trademark acceleration in the last part of the race to win gold with a time of 08:12.51. Rawat of Delhi claimed his third medal of the meet winning silver with a time of 08:16.51 while Aryan Makhija of SFI won bronze with a time of 08:22.30.

Olympian Shivani Kataria of Haryana signed off the nationals in style as she showed her experience and timed her final sprint to perfection to beat Karnataka's Khushi Dinesh. Shivani won gold with a time of 04:30.78 while Khushi clocked

04:34.10 and Tamil Nadu's Bhavika-Dugar paced her race fantastically to win bronze with a time of 04:37.68 beating contenders Astha Chaudhary and Prachi Tokas.

Sajan Kumar ensured the local crowd had a lot to cheer as he got into the pool for the last time, in his favourite event, the 200 m butterfly. He set the pool ablaze as he led from start to finish where his only competition was the clock. He stopped the clock at 01:57.73 which was better than the 01:57.75 he set at the Asian Games a few days ago.

This was the best time by an Indian in the 200 m Butterfly as he smashed the national record as well. Sajan reigned supreme in his home turf winning gold in all his 5 events setting a national record in each one of them. Supriya Mondal from Railways warded off a late challenge from teammate Sanu Debnath to win silver with a time of 02:03.36 while Sanu won bronze with a time of 02:04.13.

Richa Mishra probably has created a record which would stand the test of time. Like Sajan she too won all her events and created one national record. Doing this at the age of 36 is a tribute to her talent, hunger, perseverance and drive.

Year-wise statistics

2019

Asian Championships: India no.4, its best-ever show

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Bengaluru:

Srihari Nataraj and Virdhawal Khade won two more gold medals as India added three gold — the third came in the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay — to end with their best-ever haul of 52 medals in the 10th Asian Age Group Swimming Championships that concluded at the Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence.

India ended fourth in the medals tally behind Japan 79 medals (47 gold, 17 silver, 15 bronze), Thailand 63 (21, 18, 24) and Hong Kong 57 (15, 24, 18). India’s haul stood at 52 (15, 19, 18).