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 8211; seven of them with records 8211; 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.

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 points8217; 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 8217;98, V Remya Calicut, 1:16.42s, Jomy Thomas Calicut, 1:20.90s; 50m freestyle: Rajasree ChakravortiCalcutta, 0:29.48 NR, OR 0:29.69 bt Tashina Singh in 8217;98, Sumy Cyriac MG, 0:29.63s bettered record, M Usha Calicut, 0:30.07s.