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Srihari takes gold with personal best, narrowly misses Olympic 'A' cut

The-20-year-old, who had achieved the 'B' Standard time for the Tokyo Games at the FINA Junior World Championships in 2019, clocked his personal best of 54.10s in the heats before bettering it to 54.07s in the final.

By Pti
Srihari Nataraj takes gold with personal best, narrowly misses Olympic A cut

Tashkent, April 15: Top Indian swimmer Srihari Nataraj won the gold medal but narrowly missed the elusive Olympic 'A' qualification time in the 100m backstroke event at the Uzbekistan Open Championship on Thursday (April 15).

The-20-year-old, who had achieved the 'B' Standard time for the Tokyo Games at the FINA Junior World Championships in 2019, clocked his personal best of 54.10s in the heats before bettering it to 54.07s in the final event to win gold.

The Olympics 'A' cut for 100m backstroke event for men is 53.85s, thus missing the mark by just 0.22s.

While a B-mark means the swimmer will receive an invitation to the event if the total available quota places are not filled an A standard ensures an automatic berth to line up at the Summer Games.

No Indian has till date achieved the A standard.

Maana Patel clocked 1:04.47s in the women's 100m backstroke event to take home the gold ahead of compatriot Suvana Baskar, who settled for the silver with a timing of 1:06.17s.

Sajan Prakash bagged his third gold of the tournament in the 400m men's freestyle event as the Kerala swimmer clocked 3:56.03s.

Shivani Kataria took home the yellow metal in the women's 400m freestyle.

Chandigarh swimmer Chahat Arora took home the gold in the women's 100m breaststroke event while Likhit SP and Dhanush S grabbed silver and bronze respectively in the men's event.

Story first published: Thursday, April 15, 2021, 22:47 [IST]
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