National Aquatics: Shaon Ganguly sets meet record in 400m IM; Karnataka tops medal tally

Bhubaneswar: Shaon Ganguly improved on the best Indian time from 2024 in the 400m Individual Medley as he clocked 4 minutes 24.64 seconds to win the gold ahead of Advait Page and Aryan Nehra, ending the 78th Senior National Aquatics Championships in a blaze of glory at the Kalinga Stadium here on Thursday.  Shoan Ganguly, representing Karnataka, set the new Meet Record and improved on the National Record of 4:25.62 held by Aryan Nehra, which he set in Hyderabad in 2023. Page came second at 4:26.90 while Gujarat's Nehra finished third with a timing of 4:30.35.

The exciting event of the evening session on the final day at the Senior Nationals was the 100m backstroke battle between Rishabh Das and Utkarsh Patil, in which Rishabh finished ahead of Utkarsh by 16 microseconds.

Maharashtra's Rishabh surged ahead to touch in at 56.13 seconds while Utkarsh came second in 56.29. Karnataka's Akash Mani came third in 56.35 seconds in the event in which the National Record of 55.10 seconds is held by Olympian Srihari Nataraj of Karnataka.

In the Men's 100m freestyle, Heer Gitesh Shah of Maharashtra surprised everyone with a blazing finish, winning the gold medal in 51.29. Karnataka's Tanish George Mathew was second in 51.30, while Rishabh Das came in third with a timing of 51.43 seconds. IANS

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