COLOMBO: Swadesh Mondal creates national record in 400m medley

COLOMBO: Swadesh Mondal of Bengal
created his fourth national record at the ongoing 37th Sub Junior and 47th
Junior National Championships here..

Mondal
came up with a brilliant effort to push a fighting Shoan Ganguly of Karnataka
to the second place.

While
Swadesh took lead in butterfly, Shoan was ahead in the second hundred where his
backstroke was much faster than his competitor from Bengal.

But
Swadesh showed his supremacy in the third hundred swimming breast stroke and
held on to the lead in freestyle to clinch the race with a time of 4:34.15.

He
eclipsed Advait Page’s national record of 4:34.76 created in Pune in 2018.
Shoan clocked 4:34.39 to take home the silver and Kalp S Bohra of Karnataka
clocked 4:43.05 to win the bronze medal.

In
another record breaking performance in the 100m butterfly for group II girls,
Hashika Ramachandra of Karnataka clocked 1:05.51 to erase statemate Mayuri
Lingraj’s national record of 1:05.98 created in 2016.

Rishika
Mangle of Karnataka won the silver with a time of 1:06.99 and Pratishtha Dangi
of Maharashtra won bronze with a time of 1:09.56.

With just
one day remaining in the Championship, hosts Karnataka lead the overall medal
tally with 134 medals. Maharashtra have 62 medals so far, TNSA have 38 medals
and Bengal have 25 medals.