Indian swimmers break data; divers safe historic medal

India’s males’s 4x200m freestyle relay workforce smashed the national swimming record to clinch a silver medal on the Asian Aquatics Championships 2025 in Ahmedabad on Monday.

Aneesh S Gowda, Shoan Ganguly together with Olympians Sajan Prakash and Srihari Nataraj powered previous Malaysia in a nail-biting last leg to complete second behind the People’s Republic of China with a timing of seven:23.38, simply in need of the winners’ 7:21.05. Malaysia gained the bronze medal in 7:23.43

Srihari Nataraj has now gained 4 swimming medals on the ongoing continental meet on the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex.

Two-time Olympian Srihari Nataraj opened India’s account with silver medals within the males’s 200m freestyle and 50m backstroke swimming occasions on Sunday and in addition helped India declare bronze within the males’s 4x100m medley relay.

The silver was one in all 4 medals India claimed on Monday, highlighted by a historic first in diving and two nationwide data.

Indian divers Indiver Sairam and Willson Sing Ningthoujam gained bronze within the males’s 10m synchronised occasion on Monday, marking the nation’s first-ever podium end in diving on the Asian Aquatics Championships.

The 18-year-old Sairam and 32-year-old Ningthoujam, each from Manipur, scored 300.66 factors, ending behind China’s Zhangyu Cui and Zhanhong Xu (381.75) and Malaysia’s Bertrand Rhodict Lises and Enrique M. Harold (329.73).

“Over the last six months, we’ve really focused on synchronised events, both platform and 3m springboard,” mentioned coach Shannon Roy from Australia. “We spent time in camps overseas, including Malaysia, and at the World Championships in Singapore, preparing them for this meet and the long-term goal of the Asian Games.”

The Indian swimmers added three medals to their tally with Rishabh Das clinching the bronze within the 200m backstroke and Kushagra Rawat successful a bronze medal within the 1500m freestyle.

Rawat stopped the clock at 15:30.88 whereas Huy Hoang Nguyen of Vietnam clinched the gold with a time of 15:15.01. Ilya Sibirtsev of Uzbekistan gained silver with a time of 15:23.35.

Rishabh Das medalled within the 200m backstroke with a timing of two:02.64, behind China’s Gukailai Wang (1:59.78) and Japan’s Rui Yoshida (2:01.66).

Rujula Shashidhara additionally bettered her personal 50m freestyle mark from 26.36s to 26.34s however the 16-year-old Indian swimmer couldn’t safe a medal.

The Asian Aquatics Championships started with swimming and diving occasions on September 28. Artistic swimming and water polo will start on October 4.

Swimmers from 29 international locations are competing on the eleventh version of the Asian Aquatic Championships.

India’s tally at the moment stands at seven medals – three silvers and 4 bronze – on the Asian Aquatic Championships 2025.