12 swimmers from Ludhiana for junior national aquatic c’ship

Sports Correspondent

Ludhiana, October 18

Twelve swimmers (boys and girls) from Ludhiana city figure in the 57-member Punjab contingent

for the 37th Sub-Junior and 47th Junior National Aquatic Championship, scheduled to be held at Bengaluru, Karnataka, from October 19 to 23.

Balraj Sharma, honorary general secretary, Punjab Swimming Association, said the Punjab squad included nine sub-junior, 36 junior and 12 junior water polo players who had been selected for

the national championship on the basis of their performance during the Punjab State Swimming Championship, held in the first week of this month at Mohali.

These swimmers gave stupendous performance in the state championship wherein as many as 34 new meet records were rewritten.

The selected swimmers for national championship are — Sub-junior: Ojas Sund and Anushka Sharma (Ludhiana); Trinabh Sharma, Agumjot Singh, Apurva Sharma, Japneet Kaur and Sukhsimran Kaur (Mohali); Warasdeep Singh (Jalandhar) and Gunika (Roop Nagar).

Junior: Ishan Pawar, Ishaan Bahl, Sargunjot Singh, Kartikey Bahl, Ravinoor Singh, Varun Sharma, Aarjav Rattan, Kriti Arora, Aastha Sharma and Bhagyavardhika Verma (Ludhiana); Mahabir Singh, Ranbeer Singh, Ravi Singh, Mantej Singh and Harleen Kaur (Amritsar); Ekamarman Singh, Navreet Kaur and Harshleen Kaur (Patiala); Nishtha Sharma, Ekambir Kaur, Makshi Bansal, Ravzot Singh, Gursimran Singh, Rupesh Thakur, Tezishwar Singh, Shivnash Bhatia and Namardeep Singh (Jalandhar); Anshav Jindal (Ferozepur); Kamal Giri (Faridkot); Jasnoor Kaur, Varnika, Vanisha, Aanya Sapra, Arshpreet Kaur, Jasleen Kaur, Kanwaljeet Singh Sandhu, Uday Sharma, Arav Sharma, Karanveer Singh, Anjan Sharma, Jujhar Singh Gill, Ekamveer Walia and Shaurya Rawat (Mohali); Ramrinder Singh and Bhaskar Rattan (Sangrur); Shivani Saigal, Avni Chhabra and Vanshika (Pathankot).

Ajay Sharma and Madhav Sund from Ludhiana, Johny Bhatia from Mohali, Harmandeep Singh from Faridkot and Vinod Sangwar from Amritsar are accompanying the team as officials.