Medchal-Malkajgiri bagged 54 gold medals and 472 points to claim the overall team championship at the Telangana Sub-Junior and Junior Inter-District Swimming Championship in Gachibowli. Ranga Reddy finished second, with Jona Shiju securing multiple freestyle gold medals.
Published Date – 20 July 2026, 07:10 PM
Medchal-Malkajgiri District won the team championship with 54 gold, 50 silver and 26 bronze while Ranga Reddy finished second with 34 gold, 25 silver and 24 bronze in the Telangana Sub-junior and junior inter-district swimming championship at the GMC Balayogi swimming complex in Gachibowli.
Jona Shiju of Ranga Reddy won gold in the girls 400m freestyle, 200m freestyle and 200m fr
The results:
Boys:
50m freestyle: 1. Jordan Dominic Franklin (Hyd) 24.69, 2. B. Goutham Shashi Vardhan Naidu (Medchal) 24.80, 3. Ishan Das (RR) 25.40.
100m freestyle: 1. T.S. Tejas (Medchal) 56.96, 2. Yashaswi Nune (Medchal) 57.19, 3. Hridesh Majhi (RR) 57.30.
200m freestyle: 1. T.S. Tejas (Medchal) 2:07.04, 2. B. Prabhat Muthuswamy (RR) 2:10.66, 3. P. Daksh (Medchal) 2:11/97.
1500m freestyle: 1. B. Siddharth Varma 20:36.07, 2. Sri Manu Karthikeya (Medchal) 27:43.39, 3. M. Mohan Durga (Nzb) 29:35.94.
Girls:
1500m freestyle: 1. M. Likhitha Goud (Medchal) 20:49.94, 2. B. Sri Pragna (RR) 23:04.53, 3 Veda Koneru (Hyd) 26:34.82.
800m freestyle: 1. M. Likhitha Goud (Medchal) 10:41.05, 2. B. Sri Pragna (RR) 12:07.66, 3. Veda Koneru (Hyd) 13:03.48.
400m freestyle: 1. Jona Shiju (RR) 4:55.73, 2. Anjali Sarma (Medchal) 5:22.19, 3. Amaira Sharma (RR)5:41.71.
200m freestyle: 1. Jona Shiju (RR) 2:20.63, 2. Anjali Sarma (Medchal) 2:28.61, 3. G. Veda Ashritha (RR) 2:29.74.
400m IM: 1. Isha Agarwal (Medchal) 5:41.97, 2. B. Harshitha Varma (Medchal) 5:48.17, 3. Chaitri Anisha Sagar (RR) 7:06.88.
Overall team championship: 1. Medchal-Malkajgiri 472 pts, 2. Ranga Reddy 293 points.
