Senior National Aquatic Championships: Rawat, Nataraj shine
The HinduKushagra Rawat and Srihari Nataraj opened their campaigns at the 74th Senior National Aquatic Championships in style, rewriting the National records in 400m freestyle and 100 backstroke events respectively, at the Basavanagudi Aquatic Centre on Tuesday. READ| In the day’s much-anticipated race, the women’s 100m backstroke, Karnataka’s Ridhima Veerendra Kumar, all of 14, beat Olympian Maana Patel by nearly one second, taking the gold in 1:04:40s. The results: Men: 400m freestyle: Kushagra Rawat, 3:53.68 ; 100m backstroke: Srihari Nataraj, 55:10 ; 200m breaststroke: M. Lohit, 2:19.00; 50m butterfly: Sajan Prakash, 24:90; 4x200m freestyle: Karnataka, 7:37.65. Women: 400m freestyle: Shivangi Sarma, 4:31.86; 100m backstroke: Ridhima Veerendra Kumar, 1:04.40; 200m breaststroke: Apeksha Fernandes, 2:45.97; 50m butterfly: Rujuta Khade, 28.38; 4x200m freestyle: Karnataka, 9:08.02.