The State swimmers bagged 1 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals to finish 11th at the 33rd Glenmark Junior & Sub-junior National Aquatic Championships held in Bengaluru recently. Xavier D'Souza, Jerry Dmello, Suman Patil, Mithika Karapurkar and Megan de Almeida (Diving) were the medal-winners for Goa.
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The Goa State junior and sub-junior swimming teams won a combined eight medals at the 33rd Glenmark Junior & Sub-junior National Aquatic Championships 2016 held in Bengaluru recently. The event was organised by the Karnataka Amateur Swimming Association under the aegis of Swimming Federation of India.
The Goan swimmers bagged 1 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals to finish 11th among national level swimmers from states like Karnataka, Maharashtra and others.
Goa swimmer Xavier D'Souza won the gold medal in 50mt backstroke Boys Group I with a timing of 27.58 which is a new national level meet record. He was followed by Sri Hari N (Karnataka) with a timing of 28.45 while the third place was occupied by MP's Sandeep Hugar with a timing of 29.49.
Jerry Dmello, Suman Patil, Mithika Karapurkar, Megan de Almeida (Diving) were also among medal winners for Goa.
Medal winners:
100m backstroke Boys Group I: 1 Sri Hari N (Karnataka) “ 1.00.15; 2 Xavier
D’souza (Goa)-1.00.43; 3 Sawan Sansanwal (Madhya Pradesh)-1.02.26. 50m freestyle Boys Group I: 1 Rutvik Bhatt (Gujarat) 24.97; 2 Neel Roy(Maharashtra)“ 25.06; 3 Jerry D’Mello (Goa)“ 25.07. 50m freestyle Girls Group I: 1 Shraddha Sudhir(Karnataka) 28.59; 2 Suman Patil (Goa)-28.70; 3 Dhuri (Maharashtra) 28.81.
100m butterfly Girls Group I: 1 Damini Gowda (Karnataka)-1.04.66;2 Trisha
Karkhanis(Maharshtra) - 1.06.78; 3 Suman Patil (Goa)-1.07.50. 1500m freestyle Boys Group I: 1 Sanjay C J (Karnataka)“ 17.14.80; 2 Saif Chandna (Karnataka)-17.39.39; 3 Anurag Singh (Goa)“17.50.88. 50m freestyle Girls Group III: 1 Liyana Nizar (Karanataka)-29.85; 2 Seeya Bijlani (Maharashtra)“30.31; 3 Mithika Karapurkar(Goa) “30.38. 3m spring board diving Girls Group III: 1 Riya Mustare (Maharshtra)-137.50 points;2 Megan de Almeida (Goa)-133.20 points; 3 Moondara Ishpreet Kaur(Madhya Pradesh)“ 125.20 points.
