India swimming workforce for Asian Games 2026: Vedaant Madhavan, Srihari Nataraj, Sajan Prakash in squad

Vedaant Madhavan, together with two-time Olympians Srihari Nataraj and Sajan Prakash, will look to make a splash on the Asian Games 2026 after being named in India’s 12-member workforce for swimming at Aichi-Nagoya in Japan.

The 21-year-old son of Bollywood and Tamil cinema celebrity R Madhavan, Vedaant will compete within the 200m freestyle and 200m backstroke and can also be a part of the 4x200m freestyle relay workforce.

At the nationals in June, Vedaant Madhavan completed fourth within the 200m freestyle ultimate with a private better of 1:53.89.

India won’t discipline any girls in swimming on the Asian Games 2026, as was additionally the case on the Commonwealth Games.

The swimming competitors on the Asian Games will probably be held on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre from September 20 to 25.

Srihari and Sajan are among the many most skilled Indian swimmers within the squad. Srihari represented India on the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympics whereas Sajan swam at Rio 2016 and Tokyo.

Srihari will compete within the 50m backstroke on the Asian Games, whereas Sajan will probably be in motion within the 100m and 200m butterfly occasions. 

Distance swimmer Aryan Nehra will even be one to observe after a record-breaking home season.

The 22-year-old Aryan turned the primary Indian swimmer to interrupt the eight-minute barrier within the 800m freestyle when he clocked a nationwide document of seven:59.36 on the nationals. He additionally rewrote the 1500m freestyle nationwide document with a time of 15:14.88 throughout the identical competitors.

Rohit Benedicton is one other notable title within the Indian workforce. The butterfly specialist lowered his 50m butterfly nationwide document twice on the identical day on the nationals, ultimately clocking 23.63s within the ultimate.

Several of India’s Asian Games-bound swimmers have been additionally in motion on the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow final month.

Sajan reached the 200m butterfly ultimate, whereas Srihari progressed to the 100m backstroke semi-finals. Aryan contested the 800m and 1500m freestyle finals.

India will probably be seeking to finish a 12-year await an Asian Games swimming medal in Japan. Sandeep Sejwal was the final Indian swimmer to make the continental podium, successful bronze within the 50m breaststroke at Incheon 2014.

Indian swimmers returned with out a medal from Hangzhou 2023 regardless of setting six nationwide information.

Indian swimming workforce for Asian Games 2026

• Rohit Benedicton (males’s 50m butterfly, males’s 100m butterfly, males’s 100m freestyle, males’s 4x100m freestyle relay, males’s 4x100m medley relay)

• Rishabh Das (males’s 50m backstroke, males’s 100m backstroke, males’s 4x100m medley relay)

• Vedaant Madhavan (males’s 200m backstroke, males’s 200m freestyle, males’s 4x200m freestyle relay)

• Akash Mani (males’s 50m freestyle, males’s 100m freestyle, males’s 4x100m freestyle relay, males’s 4x100m medley relay)

• Srihari Nataraj (males’s 50m backstroke)

• Aryan Nehra (males’s 800m freestyle, males’s 1500m freestyle)

• Utkarsh Santosh Patil (males’s 100m backstroke, males’s 200m backstroke)

• Sajan Prakash (males’s 100m butterfly, males’s 200m butterfly)

• Heer Gitesh Shah (males’s 50m freestyle, males’s 4x100m freestyle relay)

• Dhakshan Shashikumar (males’s 400m freestyle, males’s 4x200m freestyle relay)

• Aneesh Sunil Kumar Gowda (males’s 200m freestyle, males’s 400m freestyle, males’s 4x100m freestyle relay, males’s 4x200m freestyle relay)

• Danush Suresh (males’s 50m breaststroke, males’s 100m breaststroke, males’s 4x100m medley relay)