Title - Three new meet records

Three meet records were established on the second day of the 54th all-India Railway aquatics championship at the ER pool here on Thursday.Sajan Prakash of South Western eclipsed the men’s 800m freestyle record with a performance of 8:38.54s that bettered Marvyn Chen of Western’s time of 8:45.63s.The day’s second record was created by international Sandeep Sejwal of Western in the 100m breaststroke event. His time of 1:03.76s obliterated his own record of 1:03.98 set last year.Another India star Aaron d’Souza of Western lowered the time in the 200m freestyle with an effort of 1:53.40s. The previous mark of 1:56.63s stood in the name of Sajan Prakash set last year.

The results:

200m freestyle: 1. Aaron D’Souza (WR) 1:53.40s (NMR, old 1:56.63s by Sajan Prakash, 2012), 2. Sajan Prakash (SWR) 1:53.83, 3. Sarma S.P. Nair (SWR) 2:01.79. 800m: 1. Sajan Prakash (SWR) 8:38.54s (NMR, old 8:45.63 by M. Chen, 2011), 2. Sanu Debnath (ER) 8:39.28, 3. Marvyn Chen (WR) 8:51.61. 200 backstroke: 1. Gopinath Kayal (ER) 2:19.13s, 2. Sumantha Nath (SER) 2:20.84, 3. V. Turbo (SWR) 2:22.89. 100m breaststroke: 1. Sandeep Sejwal (WR) 1:03.76s (NMR, old 1:03. 98 by Sejwal, 2012), 2. Anup Awasthi (SR) 1:07.77, 3. Jasadhar Lonkar (WR) 1:13.46. 50m butterfly: 1. Sarma S.P. Nair (SWR) 25.99s, 2. J.P. Arjun (SWR) 26.19, 3. Gopinath Kayal (ER) 26.37.

Diving, 3m springboard: 1. Navin Kumar Yadav (DLW) 287.00 points, 2. Abhishek Kumar (DLW) 284.45, 3. T. Hari Prasad (WR) 222.30. — Special Correspondent