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Aaron D’Souza sets the pool ablaze

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BANGALORE: The 16-year old Aaron D’Souza set the pool ablaze at the PMSC Swim Centre here setting three new meet marks on the second day of the South Zone age group swimming championship. Aaron won the 100m freestyle in 54.78 seconds, lowering team-mate Aniketh D’Souza’s 2005 mark of 55.42. Later, he went on to establish new records in the 100m butterfly (58.33s) and 200m individual medley (2:18.43).

As on the first day, Karnataka swimmers continued their dominance, sweeping most of the gold medals that were at stake.

The results (winners only, names from Karnataka, unless specified):

Boys: Group I: 400m freestyle: Poornachandra. 4:35.30.

200m breaststroke: Aditya Roshan. 2:39.46.

100m freestyle: Aaron D’Souza, 54.78 NMR. Old: 55.42. 800m freestyle: A.P. Gagan. 9:21.54. 100m butterfly: Aaron D’Souza, 58.33 NMR. Old: 59.39.

200m individual medley: Aaron D’Souza, 2:18.43. Old: 2:20.56. 4 x 100 medley relay: Karnataka, 4:21.36, NMR. Old: 4:24.05. 4 x 200m freestyle: Karnataka. 8: 44.87. NMR. Old: 8:54.0.

Group II: 1500m freestyle: Kaashay Krishna, 18:25.84.100m freestyle: Akshay Krishna, 59.61. 400m freestyle: Pranav Hinduja (AP). 4:32.03.100m butterfly: Dhritiman Roy. 1:07.15. 200m Individual medley: Akash Rohit. 2:28.48. 4 x 200m freestyle: Tamil Nadu. 9:06.65.NMR. Old: 9:17.09.

Group III: 200m freestyle: Vishakh, 2:22.15. 4 x 50m medley relay: Karnataka. 1:59.11.

Group IV: 50m breaststroke: Vinith Kumar (TN). 42.78.

200m individual medley: Vinith Kumar. 2:55.17. 4 x 50 medley relay: Tamil Nadu. 2:13.22.

Girls: Group I: 400m freestyle: S. Pratap. 4:54.88. 100m freestyle: B. Neeraja. 1:04.55 NM. Old: 1:07.06. 200m individual medley: M.G. Priyanka (TN). 2:13.21. NMR. Old: 2:37.71. 100m butterfly: Pooja R. Alva.1:08.63.NMR. Old: 1:14.41. 800m freestyle: Sushka Pratap. 9:52.97. NMR. Old: 10:18.92.

Group II: 1500m freestyle: Sreelakshmi Gorur. 19:18.51. 100m breaststroke: Sarayan (Ker). 1:24.10.

200m individual medley: M. Pravalika. 2:43.64. 100m butterfly: Arhatha Magavi.1:11.30. 100m freestyle: Arhatha Magavi. 1:06.51. 400m freestyle: Sreelakshmi Gorur. 4:55.19.NMR. Old: 4:59.44.

Group III: 100m breaststroke: Bhoomi Motwani. 1:27.15.NMR. Old: 1:27.62.

Group IV: 50m breaststroke: Prajwala. 43.38.

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