Swimming: India
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
