Partap swims his way to 200m freestyle gold

Partap Singh clocked 2 minutes and 39.73 seconds (2:39.73s) to win the gold medal in the boys’ U-17 age group of 200m freestyle event, on the opening day of the Swimming Tournament, organised by the UT Sports Department, at the Sector 23 All Weather Pool.

Partap was followed by Arsh Bains (2:52.13s) at second position and Nirbhay Saran (2:54.00s). In the girls’ 200m freestyle event, Dravya Punj (2:35.48s), Anuita (2:53.17s) and Enya Garg (3:15.06s) claimed the top three positions.

In the U-11 age group, Kabir Ravish (2:21.15s) won the boys’ 100m breaststroke event, followed by Kapish Tiwari (2:26.83s) and Panshul Tiwari (2:31.53s). Shrutika Mahto (2:00.65s) won the girls’ event, while Aerisha Sanger (2:05.32s) finished second and Vaibhavi Sharma (2:22.28s) claimed the third position. In the girls’ U-17 age group of the same event, Japneet Kaur (1:36.92s), Bhavika Jain (1:37.51s) and Anuita (1:37.60s) excelled, while in the boys’ U-11 category, Anirudh Gautam (1:00.58s) won the 50m breaststroke event, followed by Kabir Ravish (1:02.19s) at second position and Aveer Gobind Singh (1:02.59s) at third.

In the girls’ U-11 age group, Aerisha (0:56.44s) won the 50m breaststroke event, ahead of Nitya Aggarwal (1:00.81s) and Vaibhavi Sharma (1:02.76s).

In the boys’ U-14 age group of same event, Arav Malik (0:41.80s), Utharya (0:44.11s) and Utkarsh Kaushik (0:45.86s) excelled. Kavin Sharma won the 50m backstroke event of the boys’ U-17 category with a timing of 0:32.41s. Rupesh Kumar (0:37.90s) finished second and Nishant Bhardwaj (0:43.40s) claimed the third position. In the girls’ event, Enya Goyal (0:44.37s), Aarna Goyal (0:54.10s) and Adah Kapoor (1:01.11s) excelled. In the boys’ U-19 age group, Arjun Lakanpal (1:11.70s), Kabir (1:18.50s) and Shaurya Singh (1:22.59s) bagged medals.