Maha emerge winner at Sub-Junior National Aquatic event

Maharashtra bagged 40 medals (17 gold, 11 silver and 12 bronze) and collected 310 points to emerge overall champions in the 30th Sub-Junior National Aquatic Championship held at SAG swimming pool at Campal here.
While Karnataka were runners up with 28 medals (12 gold, 11 silver and 5 bronze), Tamil Nadu finished third with 14 medals (3 gold, 7 silver and 4 bronze).
In the teams championship, Maharashtra girls won in group III and IV in swimming. While in 'boys swimming', Maharashtra won in group IV. In Group III, Karnataka won.
In the Diving events, Maharashtra made a clean sweep in girls' section winning group I, II, and III. In boys' section, SSCB made a clean sweep in all the three groups.

The championship which ended today saw nine new records: six in swimming and one in diving in boys section; two in swimming in girls section.
Sanjay C J of Karnataka who won four gold and set two new records emerged best swimmer in boys group III with 28 points.
While Sahil Gangote of Maharashtra, who also set two new records, emerged best swimmer in Group IV with 24 points.
In the girls section, Vaania Kapoor Achuthan of Karnataka, who won four gold and set two new records, collected 28 points to emerge best swimmer in group III. Anya Tyagi of Maharashtra who won two gold collected 23 points to emerge as best swimmer in group IV.