SWIMMING:
Sajan Prakash finishes twenty fifth in 200m butterfly heats, fails to qualify for semis
Indian veteran swimmer Sajan Prakash ranked twenty fifth total within the 200m butterfly heats on the FINA World Championships in Budapest on Monday. The 28-year-old swimmer from Kerala completed with a timing of 1:58.67s and did not qualify for the semifinals, with solely the highest 16 positioned swimmers making the lower.
Sajan's coach Pradeep Kumar advised Sportstar previous to the race that the Indian had injured his shoulder in April and his predominant focus is the Commonwealth Video games." We all know that within the World Championship, he would stand at Twentieth-Twenty second spot. There’s no probability of competing within the semifinals or finals. Nonetheless, in CWG, he's wherever between third and fifth place, so we're wanting ahead for him to peak throughout the CWG,” mentioned Kumar.
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The house crowd favorite Kristof Milak was positioned first total within the heats with a timing of 1:54.10s. The Hungarian is sort of 4 seconds away from breaking his personal world file.
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Kushagra Rawat finishes twenty third in 800m freestyle heats, fails to qualify for finals
India's Kushagra Rawat ranked twenty third total within the 800m freestyle heats on the FINA World Championships in Budapest on Monday. The 22-year-old swimmer completed with a timing of 8:15.96s and did not qualify for the finals, with solely the highest eight positioned swimmers making it by means of.
Mykhailo Romanchuk of Ukraine was positioned first total within the heats with a timing of seven:44.75s.
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