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Danish Open: Tanish finishes 4th in 200m freestyle, Shakthi 7th in 200m butterfly
•India bagged two medals at the meet with Sajan Prakash clinching the gold in the 200m butterfly and Vedaant bagging the silver in the 1500m freestyle event on day one.
Danish Open: Sajan Prakash begins season with 200m butterfly gold; Vedaant Madhavan wins 1500m freestyle silver
•Competing in his first international meet this year, Prakash stopped the clock at 1.59.27 to stand atop the podium on Friday night.
Short Course World Championships: Swimmer Srihari Nataraj makes it a hat-trick of records
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Short Course World Championships: Swimmers Sajan, Srihari and Kushagra register best Indian performances
•Sajan Prakash, Srihari Nataraj and Kushagra Rawat registered 'national records' at the FINA Short Course World Championships in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.
Srihari Nataraj, Kushagra Rawat, Karnataka team set national records at Aquatic Championships
•Nataraj improved his own national record of 55.63s in the 100m backstroke by clocking 55.10s.
Top Indian swimmers Sajan Prakash, Srihari Nataraj set sights on Commonwealth, Asian Games
•Prakash wrote a new chapter in the history of Indian swimming by becoming the first swimmer from the country to qualify for the Olympics by breaching the 'A' standard time at a qualifying meet in Rome on 26 June. A day later, Nataraj replicated the feat to seal his berth for the Tokyo Games.
Swimmer Sajan Prakash to undergo two-week treatment for long-standing neck issue
•Prakash, the first-ever Indian swimmer to breach the 'A' standard time for the Olympics, had suffered a slipped disc in 2019 which has been radiating pain towards his left hand while swimming.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: India’s swimming campaign ends after Sajan Prakash fails to qualify for 100m butterfly semis
•Prakash, who also competed in the 2016 Rio Olympics, finished second in the second-slowest heat with a time of 53.45s.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Sajan Prakash fails to qualify for men's 200m butterfly semis
•The other Indians at the Olympics, Maana Patel and Srihari Nataraj, have already exited the competition.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Sajan Prakash says confidence from support system, shutting out nonsense helped him qualify
•Prakash, who recently became the first Indian to breach the 'A' standard time to qualify for Tokyo 2020, was laid low by a career-threatening neck injury in 2019 and the COVID-19 induced lockdown only made things worse.