India’s Sajan Prakash swims in a 200-meter butterfly heat at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday. AP/PTI
Tokyo, July 26
Indian swimmer Sajan Prakash failed to qualify for the men’s 200m butterfly semifinals at the Tokyo Olympics after finishing fourth in Heat 2 here on Monday.
Prakash, who clocked a personal best of 1:56:38 in Italy last month to breach the A mark for Olympic qualification, could only manage 1:57.22 to finish 24th among 38 swimmers. The top-16 progressed to the semifinals.
Prakash will compete in the 100m Butterfly on Thursday.
The other Indians at the Olympics, Maana Patel and Srihari Nataraj, have already exited the competition. — PTI
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