Rudrakshi Tambulwadkar and Rupak Joshi emerge best under-19 swimmers in their respective girls and boys categories, while Shruti Swamy stole the honours in the girls under-15 section in the MCF-GMAAA (Greater Mumbai Amateur Aquatic Association) Annual Inter-school and Junior college swimming championships held at Borivali’s Mandeshwar Civic Federation’s swimming pool here yesterday.
Rudrakashi swept the pool with double strike, winning the 50m and 100m freestyle events, while Rupak overall dominated the final day, setting three new meet records (in fact he topped among record-breakers as six new marks were established (all by boys) – the others being another under-19 boy Moiz Chawdhary (KC College) and under-15 boys Om Satam (Holy Cross) and Fateh Chahal (Jamnabai Narsee).
However, the Dhirubhai Ambani girl Shruti Swamy, was the cynosure of all eyes, as she made clean sweep of the pool, winning five golds in the girls under-15 section.
Individual champions in various age groups:
GIRLS: (Under-19): Rudrakshi Tambulwadkar (Jiten Mody Jr College)- 2 golds in 100m and 50 m freestyles. (U-17): Tannishtha Nair (SVIS, Kandivali)- 4 golds (100m back stroke, 100m butterfly, 50m free style and 100m Ind. medley. (U-15): Shruti Swamy (Dhirubhai Ambani)- 5 Golds (50m and 100 m free style, 100m back stroke, 100m butterfly and 100m Ind. Medley). (U-13): Dhruti Shroff (CNM)- 4 Golds (50m free style, 50m butterfly, 50m breast stroke and 100m Ind. medley). (U-11): Amatullah Dholkawala (J.B. Petit)- 2 Golds (50m free style and 100m Ind. Medley). (U-9): Myrah Deshpande (Oberoi Int.) – 2 Golds (50m Free style and 100m Ind.. Medley). (U-7): Pahel Shah (RS Bajaj AVM)- 3 Golds (25m Breast stroke, 25 m Butterfly and 25m Free style).
BOYS: (U-19): Rupak Joshi (ML Dahanuar)- 3NMR+1 BMR). (U-17): Shubham Joshi (Holy Angels)- 5 Golds (100m Breast stroke, 100m Butterfly, 50m and 100 m free style and 100m Ind Medley). (U-15): Om Satam (Holy Cross) –1 NMR – 50m Free style). (U-13): Utkkarsh Mehta (Oberoi Int.) – 3 Golds (100m Free style, 50m Breast stroke, 100m Free style and 100m Ind. Medley) . (U-11): Rivan Kolahi (JBCN Int, Parel) – 2 Golds (50m Free style and 100m Ind. Medley). (U-9): Ahan Dave (VCW Arya Vidyamandir)- 1 Gold. (U-7): Shauraya Agnihotri ( RN Podar) – 1 Gold.