Kushagra and Srihari rewrite National records
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Kushagra Rawat and Srihari Nataraj opened their campaigns at the 74th senior National aquatic championships in style, rewriting the National records in 400m freestyle and 100m backstroke events respectively, at the Basavanagudi Aquatic Centre on Tuesday.
Delhi’s Kushagra beat his nearest rival, Aneesh Gowda of Karnataka, by nearly six seconds, touching the pad in 3:53.68, and in the process shaved 1.25 off Sajan Prakash’s previous record mark.
Olympian and Karnataka’s lead swimmer Srihari lowered his own previous best from the 2019 Nationals by just over half a second, coming home in 55.10.
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