Ahmedabad | 79th Senior National Aquatics Championships 2026
79th Senior National Aquatics Championships 2026 ke Men’s 50m Backstroke event mein Bharat ke star swimmer Srihari Nataraj ne shandaar pradarshan karte hue 25.21 seconds ka samay nikala aur apna hi purana National Record tod diya halaki final me Srihari apne prelims ke time ko better nhi kar sake lekin 25.32 ke sath Gold medal apne name kiya.
Preliminary heats mein Karnataka ke Srihari Nataraj ne race par poori tarah se kabza jama liya. Isse pehle National Record 25.58 seconds tha, jo Srihari ne hi 3 September 2019 ko Bhopal mein banaya tha. Ab unhone us record ko 0.37 second se behtar karte hue naya benchmark set kar diya hai.
Srihari ki explosive start aur powerful underwater phase ne unhe baaki swimmers se kaafi aage rakha. Unka 25.21 ka timing na sirf competition ka sabse tez samay raha, balki Indian swimming ke liye ek aur historic moment bhi ban gaya.
Top 8 Qualifiers – Men’s 50m Backstroke (Prelims)
- Srihari Nataraj (Karnataka) – 25.21 (New National Record)
- Vinayak Vijay (SSCB) – 25.81
- Rishabh Anupam Das (Maharashtra) – 25.86
- Akash Mani (Karnataka) – 26.26
- Kanish Chakraborty (Bengal) – 26.43
- Utkarsh Santosh Patil (SSCB) – 26.66
- MJ Praveen Kumar (Tamil Nadu) – 26.77
- Suhas Preetham Mylari (Telangana) – 27.44
Men’s 50m Backstroke Final Results
- Srihari Nataraj (Karnataka) – 25.32
- Rishabh Anupam Das (Maharashtra) – 25.69
- Vinayak Vijay (SSCB) – 26.14
- Kanish Chakraborty (Bengal) – 26.20
- Akash Mani (Karnataka) – 26.28
- Utkarsh Santosh Patil (SSCB) – 26.59
- MJ Praveen Kumar (Tamil Nadu) – 26.68
- Suhas Preetham Mylari (Telangana) – 27.13
