Dhinidhi Desinghu creates new national record in 100m freestyle
Bhubaneswar: Dhinidhi Desinghu of Karnataka came up with a sensational swim in the 100m freestyle for group II girls to recreate the national record at the 39th Sub Junior and 49th Junior National Aquatic Championships 2023 organised in Odisha capital here today.
The 13-year-old, who trains at the Dolphin Aquatics under coach Madhu Kumar BM, clocked 57.67 secs to erase Maana Patel’s record of 59.12 created in 2014. Dhinidhi, with her powerful stroke was nearly 10m ahead of Charani Tumu of Karnataka (1:02.55), when she touched the pads. Her new national record was only fraction of seconds slower than the best Indian time of 57.3 that stands in the name of Kenisha Gupta.
In another enthralling race, Ishaan Mehra of Karnataka clocked 1:00.64 to rewrite the national record in 100m freestyle for group II boys. He bettered Suhas Pretham’s record of 1:01.29 set in 2022. Finishing behind Ishaan was Vedanta Madhir also of Karnataka. He clocked 1:01.98 to bag the silver.
On the back of his record-breaking performance on day one, Jananjoy Jyoti Hazarika of Assam dashed to a gold medal in the 50m butterfly. He looked at ease, sprinting ahead of Maharashtra’s Salil Prashant Bhagwat, to finish first clocking 25.12 while Bhagwat clocked 25.94.
In a race that kept the evening audience on the edge of their seats was the 1500m freestyle for group I boys. Staying ahead of the pack for nearly 900m of the race, Gotteti Sampath Kumar of Andhra Pradesh was pushed to the third place by Ronak Nitin Sawant of Maharashtra and Karnataka’s Dharshan S who bagged the gold and silver respectively.
Interestingly, Darshan who was swimming in lane no.5 pulled ahead of Sampath Kumar in lane no.4 with just 300m left to finish the grilling 1500m race. In clear lead, he looked comfortable to bag the gold until Ronak, swimming in lane 7, came up with one of the fastest final laps. He covered the final 100m in one minute flat. Ronak timed 16.27.90 to win gold while Dharshan clocked 16:28.18 to settle for silver and Sampath clocked 16:31.17 to win the bronze medal.
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