Vedaant Madhavan creates new meet report in 1500m freestyle | Extra sports activities Information – Occasions of India

BHUBANESWAR: Maharashtra’s Vedaant Madhavan rewrote the nationwide report in 1500m freestyle occasion for group I boys on the ongoing Junior Nationwide Aquatic Championships right here on Sunday.
Main the pack with good tempo and an environment friendly stroke, Vedaant, son of actor R Madhavan, clocked 16:01.73 to erase his statemate Advait Web page’s 2017 report of 16:06.43 seconds.
Vedaant beat Karnataka’s Amogh Anand Venkatesh (16:21.98 seconds) and Bengal’s Shubhojeet Gupta (16:34.06), who received the silver and bronze medals respectively.
Within the 400m freestyle for group II ladies, Karnataka’s Harshika Ramachandra created a brand new meet report with a time of 4:29.25 seconds, whereas statemate Rujula S completed 10s behind Harshika with a time of 4:39.53 seconds to accept silver.

Harshika created one other meet report within the 200m butterfly occasion. She eclipsed Apeksha Fernandes’ three-year-old mark of two:23.67 to win the gold.
Harshika clocked 2:23.20 seconds to complete forward of Karnataka’s Tanishi Gupta who clocked 2:28.54 seconds and Telangana’s Mokshitha Addanki.
One other report was set within the 50m breaststroke occasion for women group I as Maharashtra’s Apeksha Fernandes continued to shine, profitable her second gold medal of the meet.

She clocked a powerful 33.49 seconds to win gold forward of her statemate Zaara Jabbar who clocked 35.91 seconds.
On the finish of day two, Karnataka led the medal tally with a complete of 31 medals, adopted by Maharashtra at 17 and Telangana at 8.