Ashwath, Vedha Ashritha claim butterfly doubles at State swimming meet

A Ashwath and G Vedha Ashritha emerged as double gold medallists in the butterfly events at the Telangana State Sub-Junior and Junior Inter-District Swimming Championship. Ashwath won the boys’ 50m and 100m butterfly races, while Vedha dominated the girls’ events

Hyderabad: A Ashwath bagged a double by winning the boys’ 100m butterfly and 50m butterfly events at the Telangana State Sub-Junior and Junior Inter-District Swimming Championship held at the GMC Balayogi Sports Complex (Gachibowli) here.

In the girls’ category, G Vedha Ashritha of Medchal-Malkajgiri also won two gold medals in the 50m butterfly and 100m butterfly events.

Vedha Ashritha Gottumukkala

Results:

Boys:

100m butterfly: 1. A. Ashwath (RR) 1:07.05; 2. Arjun Sandeep Kaswan (RR) 1:07.06; 3. Dara Prateek (Hyd) 1:13.53.

50m butterfly: 1. A. Ashwath (RR) 29.06; 2. Arjun Sandeep Kaswan (RR) 30.15; 3. Idhanth Saai (Hyd) 30.82.

800m freestyle: 1. E. Stash Joseph (Medchal) 9:20.44; 2. K. Sri Manu Karthikeya (Medchal) 14:14.55; 3. M. Mohan Durga (Nzb) 14:49.91.

Girls:

50m butterfly: 1. G. Vedha Ashritha (RR) 31.55; 2. Jona Shiju (RR) 31.66; 3. Meghana Abinesh (Medchal) 34.77.

100m butterfly: 1. G. Vedha Ashritha (RR) 1:12.72; 2. Anjali Sarma (Medchal) 1:27.22; 3. Neha Vinod (RR) 1:49.82.

200m freestyle: 1. Tejashree Vidyasagar (Medchal) 2:29.03; 2. Ava Adidya Sadhana (Wgl) 2:33.34; 3. K. Havisha (Hyd) 2:33.75.