PANAJI
Teenaged swimmers, from across the country celebrated “Children’s Day” on Saturday by emerging the fastest swimmers on day one of the Sun Aquamoga 2026 swimming event held at the Bambolim beach.
Thirteen-year-old Ayra Nagathan of Hubbali emerged the fastest one km swimmer with a time of 19:39 minutes for the distance, while Vihan Naik of Cuncolim emerged second fastest with a time of 19:49 minutes and Jayden Robert also of Hubbali was third fastest in the one km race with a time of 20:09 mins.
Similarly, 14 year-old Shardul Late of Pune emerged the fastest swimmer in the 2km category with a time of 31:26 minutes.
Among women swimmers, Vandita Dhariyal of Vasco was the fastest with a time of 41:15 minutes for the 2km distance.
In the persons with disabilities category, blind swimmer, Vijay Kasivel (43) of Bengaluru was the quickest with a timing of 1:44:53 hours for the 2km distance. He was guided in the waters by his coach Mohan Rao.
The swimmers take part in the challenging 5km and 10km races on Sunday.
