Sangrur swimmers annex overall c’ship

LUDHIANA: Swimmers from Sangrur district stamped their supremacy and secured 139 points to bag the overall team championship in the three-day 41st Abhey Oswal Senior Punjab Swimming and Water-Polo Championship for Men and Women that concluded at the Punjab Agricultural University swimming pool here on Sunday. In the women’s section, Mohali swimmers accumulated 83 points to annex team championship, while Sangrur eves scored 51 points to finish as runners-up. Similarly, in men’s section, Sangrur swimmers collected 84 points to clinch the team championship, whereas hosts Ludhiana, with 43 points, finished at distant second place. In the water-polo (men), Punjab Police came out triumphant and Amritsar secured second position. Jalandhar and Ludhiana districts secured the third and fourth place, respectively. Meanwhile, four meet records were reset on the concluding day. City swimmer, Akashdeep Singh added another record against his name, make it fourth individually. In the 100-metre backstroke event, Akashdeep rewrote the meet record. He clocked 1.03.67 minutes to erase the existing record of 1.06: 02 minutes established in 2006 by Harnimrat Singh of Sangrur. Likewise, in 100-metre freestyle event, Harnimrat Singh of Sangrur improved the previous record. He took 54.23 seconds to create a new meet record. The earlier record of 56.03 second stood in the name of Karan Brar of Faridkot since 2006. Harnimrat Singh established another meet record as he clocked 1.06:34 minutes to put to shade the last record of 1.07:50 minutes set two years ago by Jashandeep Singh of Ropar. In the 4x50-metre freestyle relay (mixed), Sangrur quartet took 1.54:10 minutes to rewrite the new meet record. The previous record of 1.54:44 minutes was established by Ludhiana swimmers in 2016. — Anil Datt

Results

• 4x50m freestyle relay (mixed): 1st Sangrur, 2nd Ludhiana and 3rd Jalandhar
• Women: 100m breast stroke: 1st Vanisha of Mohali, 2nd Disha Thakur of Mohali and 3rd Gurleen Kaur of Sangrur
• 100m backstroke: 1st Deepali Attri of Sangrur, 2nd Bhavjot Kaur of Ludhiana and 3rd Arshpreet Kaur of Mohali
• 100-m butterfly : 1st Sudhrishti of Ferozepur, 2nd Sunidhi of Patiala and 3rd Varnika of Mohali
• 100-m freestyle: 1st Deepali Attri of Sangrur, 2nd Chetanya of Patiala and 3rd Bhavjot Kaur of Ludhiana
• 400m freestyle: 1st Chetanya Singla of Patiala, 2nd Varnika of Mohali and 3rd Gurnoor Kaur of Jalandhar
• 4x100-m medley relay: 1st Mohali, 2nd Sangrur, 3rd Jalandhar
• 200m individual medley: 1st Jasnoor Kaur of Mohali, 2nd Simranjeet Kaur of Sangrur and 3rd Nandni of Ferozepur
• Men: 400-m freestyle: 1st Suryansh Sharma of Hoshiarpur, 2nd Jashandeep Singh of Sangrur and 3rd Prashant Jindal of Ferozepur
• 4x100-m medley relay: 1st Punjab Police, 2nd Sangrur and 3rd Ludhiana
• 200-m individual medley: 1st Supreet Singh of Sangrur, 2nd Vishal Sharma of Amritsar, 3rd Arbaaz Khan of Patiala
• 100-m backstroke: 1st Akashdeep Singh of Ludhiana, 2nd Heman of Patiala and 3rd Jashanpreet Singh of Sangrur
• 100-m butterfly stroke: 1st Tejinder Singh of Faridkot, 2nd Anshav Jindal of Ferozepur and 3rd Anmol Jindal of Ludhiana
• 100-m freestyle: 1st Harnimrat Singh of Sangrur, 2nd Tejinder Singh of Faridkot and 3rd Mridul Punia of Punjab Police.