Record-breakers Rabiya Darwesh from St. Xaviers College and Anannya Nayak (Vibgyor High,Goregaon) were the outstanding swimmers in the of the GMAAA inter-school/junior colleges swimming championships, held at Borivali’s Mandpeshwar Civic Federation Sports Complex swimming pool, here yesterday.
The champion boys and girls in various age groups with their trophies pose with GMAAA official Pradeep Divgikar (extreme right) and MCF Secretary Satish Sharma and sports Secretary Dr. Damle (extreme left).
Rabiya dominated the girls under-19 events, winning the 100m breast stroke, butterfly strokes, free style as well as 100m individual medley events, as she eclipsed the earlier records in all these events. Anannya Nayak, too, emerged best in the girls under-15 section, by emerging best in the breast stroke, butterfly strokes, free style (50 m) as well as 100m individual medley, and like Rabiya, too set new marks in all these events.
The boys section saw three new records with Shubham Joshi (Holy Angels) had a hand in two records in the under-15 while Moiz Chawdhary (KC College) set new marks in the boys under-17 sections.
Record-breaking events:
Girls Under 19: 100 M. Breast Stroke – Rabiya Darvesh (St. Xaviers College)- 01:32.87. (OR- Muskaan Patel(Dhirubhai Ambani) (2019)- 01:34.25).
Girls Under 19: 100 M. Butterfly Stroke: Rabiya Darvesh (St.Xaviers College)- 01:27.45. (OR-01: 29.55).
Girls Under 19: 100 M. Free Style: Rabiya Darvesh (St. Xaviers College) -01:09.93. (OR-:Muskaan Patel (Dhirubhai Ambani) (2019)- 01:10.07).
Girls Under 19: 100 M. Ind. Medley -: Rabiya Darvesh (St. Xaviers College)- 01:19.76.-Muskaan Patel (Dhirubhai Ambani) (2019)- 01:20.41).
Girls Under 15: 100 M. Back Stroke – Anannya Nayak (Vibgyor High)- 01:09.41 (OR- Neha Prasad (L. Podar) (2013)-01:12.19).
Girls Under 15: 50 M. Free Style – Anannya Nayak (Vibgyor High)- 00:27.39 (OR-:Kenisha Gupta (Fazlani) (2016)-00:28.79).
Girls Under 15: 100 M. Free Style: Anannya Nayak (Vibgyor High)- 01:01.09. (OR-:Sanjiti Saha (BAF Petit) (2019)-01:03.02).
Girls Under 15: 100 M. Ind. Medley: Anannya Nayak (Vibgyor High)- 01:10.64 (OR-:Sanjiti Saha (BAF Petit) (2019)-01:11.31.
Boys U- 17: 100 M. Back Stroke: Moiz Chawdhary (KCCollege) – 01:01.77 (OR-Jason Smith – HR College)-(2014)- 01:02.09.
Boys U-15: 100 M. Butterfly Stroke: Shubham Joshi (Holy Angels)- 01:00.75. (OR-Meet Makhija (AVM Bandra) (2019)- 01:02.52. Boys: (U-15): 100 M. Free Style: Shubham Joshi (HolyAngels)- 00:56.28 (OR-Aryan Makhija (AVM Bandra-West) (2014) -00:57.09.
Individual Champions in various age groups were:
BOYS: U-19: Sanket Mhatre (Nirmala Memorial ). U-17: Jaiveer Motwani (Jamnabai Narsee). U-15: Shubham Joshi (Holy Angels). U-13: Archit Morvekar (Dr. Antonio da Silva Technical ).U- 11: Kabir Khubchandani (Dhirubhai Ambani). U-9: Abir Seth (Vibgyor High). U-7: Aryav Redkar (St. John`s High) and Khush Vakharia (Podar ORT Inter).
GIRLS: U-19: Rabiya Darvesh( St. Xavier`s). U-17: Dia Makhecha (The Cathedral & John Connon). U-15: Anannya Nayak (Vibgyor High). U-13: Sanaya Shetty (Dhirubhai Ambani Inter).U-11: Anvi Deshwal (Bom Scott,Mahim). U-9: Heeva Patel (Activity High).