Vedika Amin, of Oberoi International School, put up tremendous performance while creating four new records out the five events that she took part in the GMAAA Inter-School/ Junior Colleges Swimming championships, hosted by Mandpeshwar Civic Federation at their swimming pool at Borivali here today.
Vedika Amin
Vedika, the Oberoi school girl, set the pool on fire as she bagged golds in 50m back stroke (00:34.50 secs), 50m breast stroke (00:38.20 secs), 50 m free style (00:30.10 secs) and 100m individual medley (01:14.65 secs) in the girls under-11 sections. What was most remarkable feature of her record-breaking feats was she pipped India under-11 national champion Sanjiti Shah, of BAF Petit, in all the four events. However, Sanjita, too, had the consolation of upsetting her bid for the five event – the 50m butterfly – when she beat Vedika in another thrilling finish in record time of 00:32.50 secs. In the process Sanjiti improved her own last year’s timing of 00:34.41 secs.
Winners in U-13, U-11 and U-9 and U-7 at the pose with their trophies
Siya Devrukhkar, of Parle Tilak, also figured among the day’s six record-breaking feats – all by girls. The Parle Tilak girl won the 25m breast stroke event with a new timing of 00:23.57 secs., eclipsing last year’s Ananya Nayak timing of 00:24.50 secs. While Apeksha Fernandes, of Bombay Scottish, was the best in the girls under-13 section, with two golds, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.
Among the boys, Arman Jetha, of Bombay Scottish (5 golds in under-9), Arjunveer Gupta , of Fazlani L’Academic Goloble (4 golds and a silver in under-11) and Swanand Khanolkar, of Parle Tilak (2 golds, 1 silver and 3 bronze in under-13) categories topped their respective age groups.
Winners of the record-breaking events:
GIRLS: U-11: 50M BACK STROKE: Vedika Amin (Oberoi Int.)- 00:34.50 secs (Old record – Avantika Chavan 00:36.06t secs.).
50M BREAST STROKE: Vedika Amin (Oberoi Int.)- 00:38.20 secs (Old record – Kenisha Gupta – 00:40.56).
50M BUTTERFLY STROKE: Sanjita Saha (BAF Petit) – 00:32.50 secs.( Old record – Sanjita Saha -34.41 secs).
50M FREE STYlE: Vedika Amin (Oberoi Int.)- 00:30.10 secs (Old record – Trisha Bhimani – 00:30,90 secs).
100M INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: Vedika Amin (Oberoi Int.) – 01:14.65 secs.( Old record – Sanjita Saha -01:18.32 secs.).
U-7: 25m BREAST STROKE : Siya Devrukhkar (Parla Tilak) – 00:23.57 secs (Old record – Ananya Nayak – 00:24.08 secs.
34.41 secs).
CLOCK FOR SUNDAY
SWIMMING – 8 a.m. onwards – GMAAA Inter-school/junior colleges championships, Mandpeshwar Civic Federation, Borivali.