Aaron qualifies for Olympics

March 15, 2012 02:36 am | Updated 02:36 am IST - BANGALORE:

Aaron D'Souza joined Saurabh Sangvekar in the London Olympics bound swimming team with an impressive one minute 51.52 seconds in the 200 metres freestyle heats at the 43rd Singapore National age group swimming championship on Wednesday.

His timing was well inside the cut for Olympic invitation time (‘B' standard) of 1:51.59 seconds, according to Pradeep Kumar, head coach of Basavanagudi Aquatic Centre. Aaron improved his timing (1:50.89s) in the final later in the evening. The Olympic qualifying time (‘A' standard) is set at 1:47.82.

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