Karnataka’s C.J. Sanjay began the Glenmark junior National aquatic championships in emphatic fashion, breaking his own record in the Group II boys’ 200m freestyle event here on Tuesday.
Sanjay, who at last year’s meet in Pune had established a National record of 1:59.9, improved on his time by over a second, clocking 1:58.21 at the Basavanagudi Aquatic Centre.
Sanjay returned later as part of the Karnataka team that erased the Group II boys’ 4x100m freestyle relay record.
The other record to fall on the opening day was in the Group II girls’ 100m breaststroke event. Aaliyah Singh of Uttar Pradesh clocked 1:17.76 to eclipse A.V. Jayaveena’s 1:17.85 from four years ago.
The results:Swimming: Boys: Group I: 200m freestyle: 1. Ishaan Jaffer (Mah) 1:56.68, 2. Shivaksh Sahu (Chg) 1:59.58, 3. Neel Roy (Mah) 1:59.91; 100m breaststroke: 1. Siddharth Sankhe (Mah) 1:06.79, 2. Varun Patel (MP) 1:07.48, 3. Yuvraj Patel (Guj) 1:08.83; 100m backstroke: 1. N. Srihari (Kar) 1:00.15, 2. Xavier D’Souza (Goa) 1:00.43, 3. Sawan Sansanwal (Delhi) 1:02.26.
4x100m freestyle relay: 1. Maharashtra 3:42.11, 2. Karnataka 3:45.85, 3. Gujarat 3:46.09.
Group II: 200m freestyle: 1. C.J. Sanjay (Kar) 1:58.21 (NMR; Old: 1:59.90, C.J. Sanjay, Kar, 2015), 2. Saif Chandan (Kar) 2:05.91, 3. Rudransh Mishra (Mah) 2:06.00; 100m breaststroke: 1. P. Kushal (Kar) 1:11.13, 2. Ricky Singh Laikhuram (Man) 1:14.42, 3. Atharva Deshmukhe (Mah) 1:14.99.
100m backstroke: 1. Siddharth Joshi (Kar) 1:04.92, 2. Nanak Moolchandani (MP) 1:05.18, 3. Tanmay Das (Del) 1:05.63. 4x100m freestyle relay: 1. Karnataka 3:51.79 (NMR, Old: 3:54.49, Kar, 2014), 2. TN 3:59.94, 3. Maharashtra 4:01.71.
Girls: Group I: 200m freestyle: 1. Damini K. Gowda (Kar) 2:10.01, 2. Rayna Saldhana (Mah) 2:10.11, 3. Shraddha Sudhir (Kar) 2:17.73; 100m breaststroke: 1. Riddhi S. Bohra (Kar) 1:18.05, 2. Harshitha Jayaram (Kar) 1:18.31, 3. Sayani Ghosh (Bengal) 1:20.43; 100m backstroke: 1. Yuga Birnale (Mah) 1:09.28, 2. Jhanati Rajesh (Kar) 1:11.38, 3. Soubrity Mondal (Ben) 1:12.01; 4x100m freestyle relay: 1. Karnataka 4:10.14, 2. Maharashtra 4:11.05, 3. Bengal 4:22.22.
Group II: 200m freestyle: 1. Mayuri Lingaraj (Kar) 2:13.84, 2. Khushi Dinesh (Kar) 2:14.77, 3. Annie Jain (MP) 2:16.98; 100m breaststroke: 1. Aaliyah Singh (UP) 1:17.76 (NMR; Old: 1:17.85, A.V. Jayaveena, Kar, 2012), 2. Annie Jain (MP) 1:19.21, 3. Silki Nagpure (Guj) 1:21.30.
100m backstroke: 1. Pratyasa Ray (Odi) 1:10.47, 2. R. Jaahnavi (TN) 1:11.43s, 3. Suvana Baskar (Kar) 1:12.74; 4x100m freestyle relay: 1. Karnataka 4:17.47, 2. Maharashtra 4:22.86, 3. Tamil Nadu 4:30.37.
Water Polo: Boys: Bengal bt Karnataka 12-4, Punjab bt Gujarat 10-2, Kerala bt Manipur 15-1.
Girls: Bengal bt Delhi 13-0, Maharashtra bt Manipur 16-0.
