Rajasree, Kaustub fastest; Calicut top

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 23: Sumy Cyriac left the Water Works swimming pool as the most satisfying swimmer in the All-India Inter-Universi...

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 23: Sumy Cyriac left the Water Works swimming pool as the most satisfying swimmer in the All-India Inter-University Aquatic Championships. At the end of the six-day meet on Monday, she finished with eight gold medals – seven of them with records – and five silver.

Sumy failed to make any impact in only one (200m butterfly) of the 11 events she participated. The degree student of Alphonsa College, Pala won her fourth successive individual championship.

Defending champions Calicut retained their overall title without much ado. Most of the points for Calicut came from relay events, a couple of golds in men and a few more in women. Calicut totalled 152 points, while MG were a distant second with 68 points.

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It was a memorable day for Kaustub Radkar of Poona and Rajasree Chakravorti of Calcutta. Both emerged the fastest varsity swimmers and the Calcutta girl, struggling to impress, did it in style to win the 50m freestyle in her career best time in the last event of themeet.

Results
Men: Team championships: Calicut (65 pts), Bangalore (33), Poona (26), MJPU, Rohilkand (10), Kerala and MGU (9 each); Individual championship: Kaustub Radkar (Poona, 23 points)’ 100m backstroke: K Sivadasan (Calicut, 1;05.61s), Madhav Saund (Panjab, 1:06.66), M K Jayaprasad (Calicut, 1:08.69); 50m freestyle: Kaustub Radkar (Poona, 0:25.91s), Biju Chacko (MG, 0:26.56s), Sathya Prakash Gupta (Bangalore, 0;26.64s); Waterpolo (final): Kerala 10 (C S Abeesh, S Vinod 4, A Anilkumar 3, M K Arun 2) bt Calcutta 6 (Kaushik Mohan 2, Kaushik Kumar, Prasunjith Banerjee, Sandip Bose, Deependu Das); Hardlines: Poona 9 bt Bombay 7.

Women: Team championship: Calicut (87 points), MG 59, Calcutta 17, Kerala 7; Individual championship: Sumy Cyriac (MG, 41 points); 100m breast stroke: Sumy Cyriac (MG, 1:12.87s NR, OR 1:13.4 by Tashina Singh in ’98), V Remya (Calicut, 1:16.42s), Jomy Thomas (Calicut, 1:20.90s); 50m freestyle: Rajasree Chakravorti(Calcutta, 0:29.48 NR, OR 0:29.69 bt Tashina Singh in ’98), Sumy Cyriac (MG, 0:29.63s bettered record), M Usha (Calicut, 0:30.07s).

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