Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (PMD)
Mangaluru, Aug 25: In the district-level swimming competition organised by the education department, students from Mangala Swimming Club, from various schools in the city, put up a stunning performance bagging 74 medals including 48 gold, 21 silver, and 5 bronze medals.
This October, all participants will take part in the state-level competiton in Bengaluru.
Winners from the club were Vion D'Souza, Shamanth B P, Mithul Shetty, Keerthan and Suraksha P Rai from St Aloysius School, Urwa, Darshan form Canara High School (main), Prerana A Kunder, Pratham A Kunder from Canara High School, Urwa, S R Rachana Rao, Sania D Shetty from Sri Ramakrishna High School, Buntshostel, Hani Padmashali, Arya Baliga, Smriti from Victoria School, Ladyhill, Greeshma Shetty M, Namratha Shetty Manasa from Victoria High School, Ladyhill, Yashas H Gatti from St Aloysius High School, Urwa, Aradhana Bekal from Madhusudan D Kushe, Trisha from St Mary's School, Falnir.
The participants have been trained under the guidance of president of Mangala Swimming club, Pramukh Rai. They were trained by chief trainer of the club, Lokaraj Vittla, and assistant trainers, M Shivananda Gatti, Shishir S Gatti, Vikesh, Gavin Soans and Pundalik Kharvi.
The students underwent training in the corporation swimming pool, Mangala, and St Aloysius College swimming pool, both, said to be of Olympic standard.
Puttur: City lad Vaishnav Hegde bags four medals at Senior State Aquatic Championship
Promising swimmer Vaishnav Hegde from Puttur has made the district proud by bagging four individual medals at the Senior State Aquatic Championship, Bengaluru held between August 18 to 20 at Ramakrishna Hegde swimming pool Mattikere.
Vaishnav, a BBM student of St Philomena College, also created a new meet record in 50-metre breaststroke by bettering his own timing. The talented dazzled by winning two gold and two silver medals.
In 50-metre breaststroke, Vaishnav bagged a gold medal by creating a record of 29.60 sec. He broke his own record of 29.98 which he set last year.
He further bagged a gold medal in 50-metre freestyle by clocking 24.26 sec. Vaishnav missed the state record by 0.24 sec.
He also bagged two silver medals in 100-metre breaststroke and 50-metre butterfly stroke by clocking 1.08 min and 26.90 sec respectively.
The Puttur aquatic team stood overall 5th in the state by winning 30 points.
Vaishnav is being trained by coaches Partha Varanashi, Vasanth Kumar and Niroop G R at Balawana swimming pool, Puttur.