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Sunday, Jun 22, 2025
Swimming, particularly at elite level and in nations that bag most of the medals when the Olympic Games come around, has long been white-dominated.
This is the second consecutive year Prakash, who is set to compete in his second Olympics in Tokyo, has been recommended for the Arjuna.
The 21-year-old from Gujarat is the third Indian swimmer to get a ticket to Japan after Sajan Prakash and Srihari Nataraj.
The Kerala swimmer clocked 1:56:38 seconds in the men's 200m butterfly event at the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome.
The star swimmer withdrew from the Olympic trials saying she wants to send a message to "all misogynistic perverts in sport."
The ace swimmer Sajan Prakash had travelled to Thailand in February, 2020, to train to achieve the ‘A’ qualification mark for the Olympics, but the pandemic-induced lockdown poured cold water on all his plans.
The 68-year-old club has produced many talented swimmers and has done a lot to popularise aquatic sport in the region.
The 26-year-old failed to replicate the 22.43 seconds effort which he achieved en route to topping his heat in the morning and came fourth in 50m freestyle.
Indian swimmers Sandeep Sejwal, Sajan Prakash and Avinash Mani topped their respective heats but still failed to qualify for the finals of the Asian Games.
The trio began their swimming lessons at a local pond in Arankavu, Chendamangalam.
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