Bengaluru: Sanjay CJ sizzled on the opening day of the 43rd Glenmark junior national aquatic championships as the 14-year-old bettered his national record at the Basavanagudi Aquatic Centre on Tuesday. The Dolphin Aquatics trainee stopped the clock at 1:58.21 seconds to rewrite his previous year’s record of 1:59.90 seconds en route to his Group II 200M freestyle gold. Saif Chandan KS (2:05.91) of Karnataka took the silver while Rudransh Mishra (2:06.00) of Maharashtra took the bronze. At the end of Day One, Karnataka led the medals tally with 10 gold, five silver and two bronze ahead of Maharashtra who have four golds, three silver and four bronze.
Aaliyah Singh of Uttar Pradesh also set a new national record with a 1:17.76 seconds effort in the Group II 100M breaststroke. She broke AV Jayaveena’s four-year-old record of 1:17.85 seconds. The last of the national record came in the Group II 4x100M freestyle where Karnataka team (3:51.79s) bettered their two-year-old mark of 3:54.49 seconds.
Results: Group I: Boys: 4x100 FS: 1. Maharashtra 3:42.11s, 2. Karnataka 3:45.85s, 3. Gujarat 3:46.09s. 200M freestyle: 1. Ishaan Jaffer (Mah) 1:56.68, 2. Shivaksh Sahu (Chg) 1:59.58, 3. Neel Roy (Mah) 1:59.91.
100M BR: 1. Siddharth Sankhe (Mah) 1:06.79 2. Varun Patel (MP) 1:07.48, 3. Yuvraj Patel (Guj) 1:08.83. 100M BS: 1. Srihari N (Kar) 1:00.15, 2. Xavier D’Souza (Goa) 1:00.43, 3. Sawan Sansanwal (Delhi) 1:02.26. Girls: 100M BS: 1. Yuga Birnale (Mah) 1:09.28s, 2. Jhanati Rajesh (Kar) 1:11.38s, 3. Soubrity Mondal (Ben) 1:12.01s. 4x100M FS: 1. Karnataka 4:10.14, 2. Maharashtra 4:11.05s, 3. Bengal 4:22.22s. 200M FS: 1. Damini K Gowda (Kar) 2:10.01, 2. Rayna Saldhana (Mah) 2:10.11, 3. Shraddha Sudhir (Kar) 2:17.73. 100M BR: 1. Riddhi S Bohra (Kar) 1:18.05, 2. Harshitha Jayaram (Kar) 1:18.31, 3. Sayani Ghosh (Bengal) 1:20.43.
Group II: Boys: 100M BS: 1. Siddharth Joshi (Kar) 1:04.92s, 2. Nanak Moolchandani (MP) 1:05.18s, 3. Tanmay Das (Del) 1:05.63s. 4x100M FS: 1. Karnataka 3:51.79s (NR, OR: 3:54.49s Karnataka 2014), 2. Tamil Nadu 3:59.94s, 3. Maharashtra 4:01.71s. 200M FS: 1. Sanjay CJ (Kar) 1:58.21 (NMR; Old: 1:59.90, Sanjay CJ, Kar, 2015), 2. Saif Chandan KS (Kar) 2:05.91, 3. Rudransh Mishra (Mah) 2:06.00. 100M BR: 1. Kushal P (Kar) 1:11.13, 2. Ricky Singh Laikhuram (Man) 1:14.42, 3. Atharva Deshmukhe (Mah) 1:14.99.
Girls: 100M BS: 1. Pratyasa Ray (Odi) 1:10.47s, 2. R Jaahnavi (TN) 1:11.43s, 3. Suvana C Baskar (Kar) 1:12.74s. 4x100M FS: 1. Karnataka 4:17.47s, 2. Maharashtra 4:22.86s, 3. Tamil Nadu 4:30.37s. 200M FS: 1. Mayuri Lingaraj (Kar) 2:13.84, 2. Khushi Dinesh (Kar) 2:14.77, 3. Annie Jain (MP) 2:16.98. 100M BR: 1. Aaliyah Singh (UP) 1:17.76 (NMR; Old: 1:17.85, AV Jayaveena, Kar, 2012) 2. Annie Jain (MP) 1:19.21, 3. Sliki Nagpure (Guj) 1:01.30. Water Polo: Boys: Bengal 12 bt Karnataka 4, Punjab 10 bt Gujarat 2, Kerala 15 bt Manipur 1.
Girls: Bengal 13 bt Delhi 0, Maharashtra 16 bt Manipur 0.
