Swimmers from city bag two gold medals

Our Sports Correspondent

Ludhiana, August 3

Ludhiana swimmers bagged two gold medals besides securing the second and third positions in other events, whereas five new meet records were established on the opening day of the 42nd edition of the Senior Punjab State Swimming Championship-2019 for Men and Women being held at the War Heroes Stadium Swimming Pool, Sangrur, on Saturday.

City swimmers won top honours in the team event (4 x 200-metre free relay for men) and Anmol Jindal clinched a gold medal in an individual event (400-metre individual medley for men).

Meanwhile, five meet records were reset on Saturday, two each by hosts Sangrur and Mohali districts, while Ferozepur rewrote one record.

In the women’s 200-metre backstroke, Arshpreet Kaur from Mohali created a new record. She clocked 02.45:24 seconds to put to shade the existing record of 02.45:28 seconds set by Gurbinder Kaur of Hoshiarpur in 2007.

Chahat Arora, also from Mohali, rewrote a meet record in 200-metre breaststroke event, when she took 02:56.49 seconds to establish a new record. The earlier record of 03:07.24 seconds was established in 2005 by Mankiran Kaur of Sangrur.

Similarly, hosts Sangrur district created two meet records. Both these records were set by Deepali Attri.

In the 50-metre freestyle, Deepali took 0:28.92 seconds to eclipse the old record of 00:30.15 seconds set by her last year. She again improved upon her record in the 50-metre backstroke event, wherein she clocked 00:33.19 second to erase her record of 00.35:10 seconds, wrote in the last edition of this championship.

In the 200-metre butterfly stroke event, Anshav Jindal of Ferozepur rewrote his own record. He clocked 02.22:25 seconds to create a new record. Last year, he had set a record with 2.22:65 seconds.

Vijay Inder Singla, Punjab Cabinet Minister for PWD and Education, declared the championship open, in which around 200 swimmers drawn from 12 districts in addition to the Punjab Police were vying for top honours.

He promised to get the pool at Sangrur, indoor and all-weather. He congratulated the swimmers from Punjab, who won positions in the National Aquatic Championship last year. The Minister lauded the Punjab Swimming Association for providing the best available facilities to its swimmers. He also gave away prizes to some of the position holders.

First day’s results

Women: 200-m breaststroke: 1st Chahat Arora of Mohali, 2nd Gurnoor Kaur of Jalandhar and 3rd Vanshika of Mohali

• 4 x 200-m free relay: 1st Mohali, 2nd Ludhiana and 3rd Jalandhar
• 800-m freestyle: 1st Jasnoor Kaur of Mohali, 2nd Chetanya of Patiala and 3rd Divya Soni of Patiala.
• 200-m backstroke: 1st Arshpreet Kaur of Mohali, 2nd Deepali Attri of Sangrur and 3rd Nandini Dewra of Ferozepur.
• 400-m freestyle: 1st Varnika of Mohali, 2nd Chetanya of Patiala and 3rd Kriti Arora of Ludhiana.
• 400-m individual medley: 1st Jasnoor Kaur of Mohali, 2nd Nandini Dewra of Ferozepur and 3rd Gurnoor Kaur of Jalandhar
• 50-m breaststroke: 1st Chahat Arora of Mohali, 2nd Gurnoor Kaur of Jalandhar and 3rd Disha Thakur of Ropar
• 50-m butterfly stroke: 1st Nishtha Sharma of Jalandhar, 2nd Bhavjot Kaur of Ludhiana and 3rd Arshpreet Kaur of Mohali
• 50-m freestyle: 1st Deepali Attri of Sangrur, 2nd Jasnoor Kaur of Mohali and 3rd Simranjeet Kaur of Sangrur.
• 50-m backstroke: 1st Deepali Attri of Sangrur, 2nd Bhavjot Kaur of Ludhiana and 3rd Arshpreet Kaur of Mohali
• 200-m butterfly stroke: 1st Gurnoor Kaur of Jalandhar, 2nd Varnika of Mohali and 3rd Dhriti of Patiala
• 4 x 100-m free relay: 1st Mohali, 2nd Jalandhar and 3rd Ludhiana

Men: 4 x200-m free relay: 1st Sangrur, 2nd Punjab Police and 3rd Jalandhar.

• 800-m freestyle: 1st Suryansh Sharma of Hoshiarpur, 2nd Anmol Jindal of Ludhiana and 3rd Sharandeep Singh
• 200-m backstroke: 1st Rajwinder Singh of Sangrur, Abhishek Rana of Ropar and 3rd Ishaan Pawar of Ludhiana
• 200-m breaststroke: 1st Vishal Sharma of Amritsar, 2nd Harnimrat of Sangrur and 3rd Kashish Punia of Punjab Police
• 400-m freestyle: 1st Suryansh Sharma of Hoshairpur, 2nd Anshav Jindal of Ferozepur and 3rd Adil Saluja of Patiala
• 400-m individual medley: 1st Anmol Jindal of Ludhiana, 2nd Suryansh Sharma of Hoshiarpur and 3rd Harsimar of Mohali
• 50-m breaststroke: 1st Harnimrat Singh Bhinder of Sangrur, 2nd Vishal Sharma of Amritsar and 3rd Ravinder Arya of Punjab Police
• 50-m butterfly stroke: 1st Ravinder Arya of Punjab Police, 2nd Anshav Jindal of Ferozepur and 3rd Irsh Chaudhary of Amritsar.
• 50-m freestyle: 1st Arun Guleria, 2nd Mridul Punia of Punjab Police and 3rd Jnmay Das of Jalandhar
• 50-m backstroke: 1st Jobanpreet Singh of Sangrur, 2nd Rajwinder Singh of Sangrur and 3rd Mridul Punia of Punjab Police
•  200-m butterfly stroke: 1st Anshav Jindal of Ferozepur, 2nd Uday Sharma of Hoshiarpur and 3rd Anmol Jindal of Ludhiana.
• 4 x 100-m free relay: 1st Jalandhar, 2nd Sangrur and 3rd Amritsar