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Deshwal sisters Saanvi and Anvi star at national swim meet; Paris Olympian Dhinidhi bags 5 gold medals

August 21, 2024 9:40 pm

Dhinidhi's performance would have been good enough for Karnataka to win the title in this category, thus ensuring a clean sweep for the southern state, but Saanvi and Anvi had other ideas.

'It’s a vindication’: Indian swimmer SP Likith reacts to five-year ban on two Uzbek administrators for cheating scores

August 08, 2023 9:51 am

Likith went through a mental-health crisis after reporting the cheating to get Uzbek swimmers qualified for Olympics, but bounced back with help of two Uzbek athletes. And now, World Aquatics has validated him by banning the cheating officials.

For India's fastest swimming couple, a freestyle love story and a podium finish

July 09, 2023 2:09 pm

At the recently-concluded National Championships in Hyderabad, Rujuta shattered a 20-year-old national record in the women’s 50m freestyle; Virdhawal won the 50m butterfly and freestyle.

Sajan Prakash, Srihari Nataraj to spearhead Indian swimming campaign in CWG

June 25, 2022 3:39 pm

The star duo have been given the task to bring first medal in able-bodied swimming at the Commonwealth Games.

'It feels surreal,' says swimmer Maana Patel after winning quota for Tokyo Games

July 05, 2021 2:07 pm

The Ahmadabad girl who is just 21 will be the first and only Indian female swimmer to represent the country in Tokyo Olympics.

India’s finest swimmers back in the pool after five months

October 23, 2020 7:57 am

They get back into water, knowing it would be a long haul to best timings.

Swimming guidelines? Federation takes easy lane, forwards US norms

May 15, 2020 4:34 pm

It turns out the SFI had simply forwarded a set of guidelines USA Swimming had prepared for swimmers in their country. Not copy-pasting bits or borrowing ideas, but passing on the eight-page document titled ‘USA Swimming: Facility re-opening, messaging and planning’ as is.

Swimming against tide, IAF team plans to circle Mumbai in 50 hrs

October 29, 2014 12:45 am

The six-member team is attempting to become the first athletes to swim around the city in a clockwise direction

Rajkot to host sub-junior national aquatic meet

June 15, 2012 4:58 am

The city is set to play host to Sub-Junior National Aquatic Championship 2012 next month.

Another blow as two CWG swimmers fail dope test

September 06, 2010 5:01 am

Just days after six wrestlers and two throwers tested positive for methylhexaneamine,three Indian swimmers,including two who were part of the national squad for next month’s Commonwealth Games,have failed the dope test.

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