Karnataka’s Hashika Ramachandra Breaks 13-year-old National Record in 400m Freestyle

Karnataka’s Hashika Ramachandra broke a 13-year-old national record in the 400m women’s freestyle event at the 77th Senior National Aquatic Championships here on Tuesday.

Hashika broke the national record, held previously by Richa Mishra (4:25.76) from Jharkhand, by clocking 4:24.70 minutes.

The Men’s 400m saw Karnataka’s Aneesh S Gowda claim the top spot with a time of 3:56.59 minutes.

Dhanush Suresh, from Tamil Nadu, won gold in the men’s 200m breaststroke with a timing of 2:18.85 minutes.

Results:

Men –

400m Freestyle:

Aneesh S Gowda 3:56.59

Dharshan S 4:01.39

Devansh Maheshkumar Parmar 4:01.39

200m Breaststroke:

Dhanush Suresh 2:18.85

Manikanta L 2:20.66

Anoop Augustine 2:21.63

100m Backstroke:

Akash Mani 56.15

Rishabh Anupam Das 57.28

Vinayak Vijay 57.66

50m Butterfly:

B Benedicton Rohit 24.22

Mihir Ambre 24.37

Adhithya Dinesh 24.63

4 x 200m Freestyle:

Karnataka (Aneesh S Gowda, Dharshan S, Kartikeyan Nair, Dhakshan S) 7:42.90

RSPB (Sanu Debnath, Devansh Maheshkumar Parmar, M Vasuram, Sathya Sai Krishnan M) 7:47.64

SSCB (Unni Krishnan s, Ronak Nitin Sawant, Ansu Kar, Anand As) 7:50.45

Women –

400m Freestyle:

Hashika Ramachandra 4:24.70 (NR)

Vritti Agarwal 4:25.09

Bhavya Sachdeva 4:30.94

200m Breaststroke:

Thanya Shadakshari 2:40.54

Jyoti Bajirao Pati 2:42.01

Harshitha Jayaram 2:43.48

100m Backstroke:

Soubrity Mondal 1:05.51

Pratyasa Ray 1:05.82

Rujuta Prasad Rajadnya 1:06.30

50m Butterfly:

Mahi Swetraj 28.33

Manavi Varma 28.67

Rujuta Prasad Rajadnya 28.70

4 x 200m Freestyle:

Karnataka (Shirin, Shalini R Dixit, Naisha, Hashika Ramachandra) 8:54.85

Maharashtra (Deepti Raghunath Tilak, Diksha Sandip Yadav, Dakshajaa Dey Upreti, Aditi Satish Hegde) 9:01.15

Odisha (Sonia Patel, Divyanka Dibyajyoti Pradhan, Pratyasa Ray, Shristi Upadhaya) 9:03.53