Swimmers from GAF Mumbai, SGTIDM Delhi and GAFRAY Bengaluru put up a stellar performance at the 65th National School games which concluded at the Dr SPM Swimming Complex in Delhi today. The swimmers picked up a total of 54 individual medals including 23 gold 20 silver and 11 bronze medals. They also set10 new meet records and 2 better meet records in the process.
A centre wise breakup of medals is given below:
Centre | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | NMR | BMR |
GAF Mumbai |
5 |
3 |
1 |
9 |
4 |
0 |
SGTIDM Delhi |
18 |
12 |
5 |
35 |
6 |
2 |
GAFRAY Bangalore |
0 |
5 |
5 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
Total |
23 |
20 |
11 |
54 |
10 |
2 |
Prachi Tokas, Kiara Bangera, Tanish Kaswan Naysar won 3 gold medals each with Prachi setting a New Meet record in all 3 events namely the 800 m Freestyle, 200 m Freestyle and 400 m Freestyle in the U19 Girls category. Kiara had 2 Meet records in the U14 girls category in the 200 m Freestyle and 100 m Butterfly events.
Vedant Bapna won 2 gold and one silver medal and set 2 new meet records in the 100 m and 200 m backstroke events in the U17 boys category narrowly losing to team mate Tanmoy Das who picked up the gold in the 50 m backstroke setting a new meet record himself and bettering the meet record in the 100m backstroke event.
Astha Chaudhary and Jahnavi Choudhury set new meet records in 100 m butterfly and 50 m Freestyle events in the U17 Girls category while Astha also bettered the existing meet record in the 200 Fly.
A total of 55 swimmers participated in the meet from across 3 centres.