Thursday, August 21, 2014

Swimmathon - Push back the pain to find the glory




Swimmathon 2014

--Push back the pain to find the glory

Swimmathon is the largest Event organised by IIT Bombay Swimming Club and is held annually during the end of Spring season. Swimmathon started in 1989 and was initially supposed to be a 6 hour swimming marathon, but owing to the response and enthusiasm shown by the participants the duration was changed to 12 hours. Over the years, Swimmathon has grown exponentially and now attracts 100+ participants every year.
Swimmathon 2014 was the 25th edition of the event and it was conducted on 5th April and 6th April from 5.30 PM to 5.30 AM in the New Swimming Pool. Event saw a huge participation from both students and campusites. The event started with the arrival of Prof. U.A. Yajnik (Dean, Student Affairs). Dr. P. M. Reddy (Aquatics coach), Dr. B. B. Appaji (SAC Incharge) and Prof. Ramesh Kumar Sports(Chairman, Sports) were also present on the occasion. It was a wonderful experience seeing so many swimmers swimming together. Refreshments were also provided to the participants and officials throughout the event.


Details of the event are as follows:
  • Total registrations- 160
  • 113 participants appeared in the event (39 Campusites, 74 Students)
  • 48 people completed the event by swimming for 12 hours
  • Out of 48, 43 were students and 5 were campsites.
New Records
  • In girls, Saakshi Kale (Campusite), the previous record holder in the category, bettered her own record by covering 30.6 kms and winning Swimmathon 2nd year in a row.
  • In boys, Ashwin Kanhere, an Aerospace Engineering freshman, made a new freshmen record by covering 27.9 kms in 12 hours. He stood over all second in the competition.
These are the students, who have completed Swimathon by swimming 12 hours:
S.no
Full Name
Distance Covered (km)
1
Saakshi Kale
30.6
2
Ashwin Kanhere
27.9
3
Aniket Gaikwad
25.4
4
Rahul Boriwal
23.1
5
Shibani Santurkar
21.1
6
Aditya N. Deshmukh
20.3
7
Dauji Saha
18.5
8
Dikshant Agarwal
18.1
9
Shahrukh Pithawala
17.8
10
Vardhan Patankar
16.6
11
Durgesh
16.5
12
Gangula Abhinav
16.2
13
Kuldeep Singh
16
14
Pranav Prakash Srivastava
16
15
Akhil Kumar S
15.9
16
Harsh Patel
15.6
17
Utkarsh
15.5
18
Nilesh
15.3
19
Arpit Agarwal
15.2
20
Aishwarya V Iyer
15.1
21
Shailesh K Sahu
15.1
22
Snehalesh Prakash Mahale
14.6
23
Suraj Harihar Singh
14.4
24
Naman Singhal
14.1
25
Rohit
13.9
26
Piyush Arya
13.5
27
Yash Bhargava
13.3
28
Sayan Chakrabarti
12.8
29
Aniket Kundu
12.7
30
Shreyas Mangalgi
12.5
31
Rucha Walawalkar
12.3
32
Saurabh Sinha
12.3
33
Ajitesh Singh
12.3
34
Bakku Sri Harsha
12.2
35
Siddharth Jha
12.2
36
Vivekanand Thagria
12.2
37
Akshay Shetty
12.1
38
Hussain Bharmal
12.1
39
Rishabh Aggarwal
12
40
Inderdip
11.6
41
Rushina Shah
11
42
Aishwary Joshi
11
43
Rabish Kumar Singh
10.1
44
Rishabh Choudhary
10
45
Ankit Patil
9.2
46
Kitty Varghesey
9
47
Ritu Thakkar
8.7
48
Shubham Bansode
7.2
*The detailed results of all the participants are available on the swimclub website


Karan Gupta
Institute Aquatics Secretary







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