Abhinaya’s winning splurge continues

PUNE, July 18: Nothing could stop the winning spree of the Karnataka girl Abhinaya Shetty, who added four more gold medals to her overnight...

PUNE, July 18: Nothing could stop the winning spree of the Karnataka girl Abhinaya Shetty, who added four more gold medals to her overnight tally of two on the second day of the 24th Junior National Aquatic Championship at the Mhalunge Balewadi Sports Complex, here today.

The second-year Commerce student of the St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore, Abhinaya, swept aside all her challengers in the three individual events and added another gold by anchoring the 4x100m freestyle relay team to victory.

Karnataka laid siege on the pool, virtually, pocketing 10 of the 13 gold medals at stake today with their tally reading an impressive 17 gold, 10 silver and 4 bronze medals.

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International Elvis Ali Hazarika of Assam finally made his presence felt in the championship when he won two gold medals.

Yesterday Hazarika had won only one silver in the 200 metres IM as Karnataka’s Hakimuddin emerged winner in the 200m IM group-I.

Today, Hazarika avenged that defeat by outsmarting Hakimuddin in both events which pitted them and made it a golden double.

RESULTSBoys under-18 (200 freestyle): 1 Elvis Ali Hazarika (Assam) 2.03.68secs, 2 SH Hakimuddin (Kar), P Vimal Kumar (Ker). 200m backstroke: 1 Surjit Ganguly (Ben) 2.19.32secs, 2 Sachin Karkar (Del), SV Preetam (Kar) 3. 100m butterfly: 1 Elvis Ali Hazarika (Assam) 1:00.92secs; 2 SH Hakimuddin (Kar), 3 R Veermani (TN).

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Under-15 (400m freestyle): 1 Nakul Narayan (Kar) 4.36.97; 2 Mario Johnson (Kar), 3 Akbar Ali Mir (Ben). 100m backstroke: 1 K Bharath (Kar) 1.07.85secs, 2 Akbar Ali Mir (Ben), 3 Tanuj Arora (Del). 200m breaststroke: 1 Vinay Baswaraj (Kar) 2.42.57secs, 2 Sandeep Verma (Mah), 3 S Pavan (Kar) 3. 4x100m freestyle relay: 1 Karnataka ( Hakimuddin, SV Preetam, Chaitanya Prabhu, Santosh Mahale) 3.58.81secs; 2 Bengal, 3 Delhi.

GIRLS under-18 (200m freestyle): 1 Abhinaya Shetty (Kar) 2.16.77; 2 R Darshana (Kar), 3 Naina Sen (Del). 400m freestyle: 1 Sonia Jose (Kar) 4.53.66secs; 2 Richa Mishra (Del), 3 Divya Bajaj (Kar). 200m backstroke: 1 Abhinaya Shetty (Kar) 2.35.71secs; 2 Naina Sen (Del), 3 Sanjitha Shampur (Kar). 100m backstroke: 1 Reshma Millet (Kar) 1.12.70secs; 2 Delna Bhumgara (Mah), 3 Richa Mishra (Del). 100m butterfly: 1 Abhinaya Shetty (Kar) 1.08.88secs; 2 Rushani Prabhu (Kar), 3 Nisha Madgaokar (Goa) 3. 4x100m freestyle relay: 1 Karnataka (Darshana Rajaram, Reshma Millet, K Chitra, Abhinaya Shetty) 4.22.13secs; 2 Delhi, 3 Maharashtra (Nanita Khurana, Zeba Wadia, Nandita Srinivasan, Sindhu Thakar).