PUNE: Utkarsh Ghor of Maharashtra set two meet records on the opening day of the 34th sub-junior National aquatic championships, which commenced at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex here on Wednesday.
In the 50m backstroke, Ghor clocked 34.30 seconds to improve upon his own record of 34.88 set during the heats in the morning session. S. Athouba Meitei of Manipur won the silver in 36.06 while Ghor’s teammate Rishabh Das claimed the bronze in 36.19.
Ghor also claimed the 50m freestyle title in a time of 30.55. Basit Ahmed of Assam won the silver in 31.40 while Manipur’s S. Athouba Meitei settled for the bronze clocking 32.30.
Aanya Wala and Apeksha Fernandes won the first medals for the host, silver and bronze in the 200m freestyle girls’ group III clocking 2 min, 20.88s and 2 min, 21.54s respectively. Shakthi Balakrishnan won the gold in 2 min, 19.52s.
The old rivalry between Mumbai duo Sanjiti Saha of Khar Gymkhana and Palak Dhami of Glenmark Aquatic Foundation was on display in the 100m butterfly.
Both improved the National record with Sanjiti winning in a record time of 1 min, 7.77s. Palak finished second best (1:08.82s) while Shakthi won the bronze in 1:12.46s.
