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Maharashtra girls continue to dominate

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RECORD RACE:Maharashtra's Rujuta Bhatt on her way to a new record in the 100m butterfly (Group II).

Bangalore: Maharashtra continued to dominate the girls' events at the 37th junior National aquatic championship at the BAC pool here on Friday, day three of the meet. They set three more records, to add to the three they set on the second day.

Surabhi Tipre continued her sparkling run in the meet, knocking off almost a minute from the previous record in the 1,500m freestyle (group I). Rujuta Bhatt was the other individual record-breaker, winning the 100m butterfly (group II) comfortably. Rujuta was also part of the 4x200m freestyle relay team (group II), that erased Karnataka's record, set earlier in the day.

The host, meanwhile, won four golds, to maintain its position at the top of the overall championship standings. Akshay Krishna, M. Arvind, T. Sneha and the boys' 4x200m freestyle relay team (group II) all won, keeping Karnataka marginally ahead of Maharashtra by 309 points to 293.

The results: Boys: Group I: 100m freestyle: 1. Jaywant Vijaya Kumar (TN) 55.04; 2. Sajan Prakash (TN) 55.14; 3. Apurva Sharma (Mah) 56.55. 50m backstroke: 1. Gopinath Kayal (WB) 29.01; 2. K. Nandakumar (TN) 29.68; 3. V. Turbu (Ker) 29.96. 400m medley: 1. Akshay Krishna (Kar) 4:57.42; 2. Rahul Chokshi (Guj) 4:58.96; 3. Sachin Kumar Maurya (UP) 5:01.98. 4x200m freestyle relay: 1. Maharashtra (Saurabh Sangvekar, Ajey Moghe, Rahul Sharma, Kevin Bora) 8:22.16; 2. Karnataka (A. Ajay, Akash Rohit, Akshay Krishna, K.S. Prajwal) 8:22.68; 3. Tamil Nadu (Girish Kumar, P. Sandeep, Sajan Prakash, Jaywant Vijaya Kumar) 8:27.89.

Group II: 100m freestyle: 1. Neil Contractor (Guj) 59.25; 2. Himanshu Dhakad (MP) 59.32; 3. Viraj Dhokale (Mah) 59.41. 50m backstroke: 1. B. Pranam (Kar) 30.50; 2. Tuhin Kumar Kundu (WB) 31.33; 3. Rohit Imoliya (MP) 31.80. 400m medley: 1. M. Arvind (Kar) 5:12.41; 2. Akhilesh Ram (Kar) 5:13.14; 3. Supriya Mondal (WB) 5:22.30. 4x200m freestyle relay: 1. Karnataka (Akhilesh Ram, S.V. Sumukh, M. Arvind, B. Pranam) 8:58.29; 2. Maharashtra (Viraj Dhokale, Mitesh Kunte, Sudhanshu Sharma, Jay Devnani) 9:09.15; 3. Tamil Nadu (P. Larsen, K. Arvind, Gautham Selvakumar, S.K. Adarsh Narayan) 9:15.69.

Girls: Group I: 1500m freestyle: 1. Surabhi Tipre (Mah) 17:46.82, NMR (Old Record: Sushaka Pratap (Kar) 18:42.0); 2. Srilakshmi Gorur (Kar) 18:57.92; 3. Srishti Tandon (Raj) 19:03.44. 100m butterfly: 1. T. Sneha (Kar) 1:08.71; 2. Arhatha Magavi (Kar) 1:09.56; 3. Shinjini Sahay (Mah) 1:12.32. 50m backstroke: 1. Kavya Bhandekar (Mah) 33.04; 2. C. Ayshwarya (TN) 33.32; 3. Aarsi Poddar (WB) 33.81. 4x200m freestyle relay: 1. Tamil Nadu (V.K. Visali, M. Raghavi, A. Gulnaz Rawoof, Anusha Mehta) 9:26.58; 2. Karnataka (T. Sneha, Meghana Srivatsa, Bhoomi Motwani, Prathima Kollali) 9:27.59; 3. Maharashtra (Surabhi Tipre, Shinjini Sahay, Komal Kirve, Poorva Shetye) 9:48.63.

Group II: 800m freestyle: 1. Kanchi Desai (Mah) 9:46.03; 2. V.K.R. Meenakshi (TN) 10:14.28; 3. Vani Sahni (Dli) 10:18.61. 100m butterfly: 1. Rujuta Bhatt (Mah) 1:06.81, NMR (Old Record: Arhatha Magavi (Kar) 1:07.29); 2. Rutuja Udishi (Mah) 1:09.83; 3. Srishti Nag (Chg) 1:12.34. 50m backstroke: 1. Ananya Panigrahi (Mah) 33.88, 2. Rhea Castelino (AP) 34.27; 3. Avantika Chavan (Mah) 35.15. 4x200m freestyle relay: 1. Maharashtra (Rutuja Udishi, Rujuta Bhatt, Ananya Panigrahi, Kanchi Desai) 9:27.40, NMR (Old Record: Karnataka 9:31.37); 2. Karnataka (Ishwarya Bhandari, U.S. Sapthami, Ashritha Bharadwaj, Tulasi Haritsa) 9:45.56; 3. Delhi (Vani Sahni, Priyanka Priyadarshini, Greesha Mehta, Ruhaab Khan) 9:46.74.

Water polo: Boys: Karnataka bt Madhya Pradesh 8-0. West Bengal bt Punjab 7-4. Delhi bt Manipur 5-2. Maharashtra bt Kerala 9-2.

Girls: Kerala bt West Bengal 6-1. Karnataka bt Delhi 11-0 .

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