Vedaant Madhavan creates new meet record in 1500m freestyle

BHUBANESWAR: Maharashtra's Vedaant Madhavan rewrote the national record in the 1500m freestyle event for Group I Boys at the ongoing 48th Junior National Aquatic Championships being held at the Biju Patnaik Swimming Pool in the Kalinga Stadium, here.

Leading the pack with a good pace and an efficient stroke, Vedaant, son of actor R. Madhavan, clocked 16:01.73 to erase his state-mate Advait Page's record of 16:06.43 seconds which was set in 2017. He beat Karnataka's Amogh Anand Venkatesh who timed 16:21.98 seconds and Bengal's Shubhojeet Gupta who touched pads on 16:34.06 to win the bronze.

In the 400m freestyle for Group II Girls, Karnataka's Harshika Ramachandra created a new meet record with a time of 4:29.25 seconds while Rujula S. also of Karnataka finished ten seconds behind Harshika with a time of 4:39.53 seconds to settle for silver. IANS

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