CHANDIGARH, JULY 29 :Rahul Ratnam swam to glory by winning 200 metres freestyle gold in the boys open category on the opening day of the Administrator’s Cup Swimming Championship being conducted by Chandigarh Sports Department at the all-weather swimming pool at Sector 23 Yoga Centre here today.
Rahul emerged clearcut winner as he covered the distance in 2:33.77. Second-placed Akhilesh Rawat timed 2:53.02 for the silver medal. Amanpreet got bronze as he was home in 3:07.59.Shruti Sharma viirtually faced no resistance from other competitors as she captured gold in 200 metres freestyle in the girls open category. he timed 2:58.62. Amarjot clocked 3:18.52 for silver while Gurjot got bronze in 3:59.69.
The first gold medal was claimed by Kunwar Saini who recorded the best timing of 0.39.21 in the 50 metres freestyle for boys under-10. This honour in the girls category went to Pushpa Sharma who clocked 0.56.12.
50M freestyle U-10 (boys): 1 Kunwar Saini 0.39.21, 2 Aditya V. Kaul
0.51.47, 3 Vipul Narang 0.54.92.50M FS Girls U-10: 1 Pushpa Sharma
0.56.12; 2 Saaz Sahdra 0.56.85; 3 Mehakdeep Kaur 0.57.77.
50k freestyle boys U-12: 1 Amandeep Singh 0.30.51; 2 Maninder Singh
0.39.31; 3 Chandan 0.44.17. 50m freestyle girls U-12: 1 Chahal Arora
0.34.27; 2 Sahib Preet Kaur 0.41.15; 3 Somya Gupta 0.42.61.
50m freestyle boys U-14: 1 Sahib Rana 0.31.36; 2 Mayank Sagmani 0.32.85;
3 Arshdeep Singh 0.36.18.50 m freestyle girls U-14: 1 Garima Rawal
0.35.98; 2 Kanika Sharma 0.37.18; 3 Shaira Bedi 0.38.8.
200 m freestyle boys U-17: 1 Kunal Bhardwaj 2.07.95; 2 Parminder Singh
2.41.16; 3 Rishab Sharma 2.52.48.
200 m freestyle boys open: 1 Rahul Ratnam 2.33.77; 2 Akhilesh Rawat
2:53.02; 3 Amanpreet 3.07.59. 200 m freestyle girls open: 1 Shruti Sharma 2.58.92; 2 Amarjot 3.18.52; 3 Gurjot 3.59.69.