National aquatics | Rujula and Bhavya break meet information

Rujula S. and Bhavya Sachdeva swam confidently to interrupt ladies’s 50m and 1500m freestyle meet information respectively and clinch gold medals within the National aquatics championships on the Kalinga Stadium Aquatic Centre right here on Tuesday.

The 16-year-old Rujula benefited from her robust mindset and good preparation to enhance upon her earlier private better of 26.91 and secured her maiden gold. “The distance was brief, so I went all out,” mentioned Rujula.

Bhavya swam tactically and elevated the hole with others after the midway stage as she shattered Malavika’s 10-year-old file with a time of 17:35.07 and bagged her second gold.

“It was slower than I assumed. After lacking the mark in 2023, it feels good to attain it,” mentioned Bhavya, who relocated from Australia to Bangkok for private causes.

Competing within the lone 50m backstroke occasion, Olympian Srihari Nataraj, with out a shave and clearly in coaching mode for the upcoming World University Games, clocked 25.86 within the heats and 25.70 within the remaining to say the highest honour. He narrowly missed his 2019 National file of 25.58.

Aryan Nehra, who set the National mark of three:52.55 in 2023, fought again within the remaining 100m to regain the 400m freestyle crown (3:55.96).

Tamil Nadu (Nithik Nathella, Danush Suresh, B. Benedicton Rohit, Adhithya Dinesh) took the boys’s 4x100m medley relay gold with a file.

The outcomes (winners solely): Men: 400m freestyle: Aryan Nehra (Guj) 3:55.96; 50m backstroke: Srihari Nataraj (Kar) 25.70; 200m butterfly: Sajan Prakash (AIP) 1:58.98; 4x100m medley relay: Tamil Nadu 3:45.09 (NMR, Old 3:45.66, 2024).

Women: 50m freestyle: Rujula S. (Kar) 26.36 (NMR, Old 26.47, Rujuta Khade, 2023); 1500m freestyle: Bhavya Sachdeva (Del) 17:35.07 (NMR, Old 17:39. 16, Malavika V., 2015); 50m backstroke: Vihitha Nayana Loganathan (Kar) 29.99; 200m butterfly: Astha Choudhury (RSPB) 2:20.63; 4x100m medley relay: Karnataka 4:25.92.