24-year-old Swimming Champion Does UT Proud: Chahat Arora breaks breaststroke nationwide report twice in a day

On a record-breaking day, 24-year-old Chandigarh swimmer Chahat Arora broke the ladies’s 100m breaststroke nationwide report twice, first in heats after which within the ultimate, to say the gold medal within the seventy fifth Senior National Swimming Championship in Guwahati on Saturday. Arora, who first broke the sooner nationwide report of 1 minute and 14.87 seconds of Saloni Dalal set in Thiruvananthapuram in 2018 with a timing of 1 minute and 14.38 seconds within the 100m breaststroke heats on Sunday, gained the gold medal by bettering her new nationwide report with a timing of 1 minute and 13.61 seconds on Sunday night. Earlier, Arora additionally gained the silver medal in ladies’s 200m breaststroke and Saturday’s medal meant that she has now gained three medals within the nationals.

“It’s a special moment for me to break the national record in women’s 100m breaststroke event twice in a day. My earlier best timing was one minute and 14.42 seconds and to improve it first in the heats and then in the final again to make a new national record made it special. Conditions were a bit humid as the weather was a bit rough here but to make the national record will motivate me a lot,” stated Arora whereas talking with The Indian Express from Guwahati.

Arora first hogged the limelight when she grew to become the nationwide champion within the 50m breaststroke occasion within the Senior Nationals in 2016 earlier than she gained a bronze within the 100m breaststroke occasion in South Asian Games in Guwahati the identical yr. Arora, who was a part of the bronze medal profitable 4X100 medley relay Indian staff in Asian Age Group Swimming Championships in Tashkent in 2017, additionally gained the silver medal within the 2019 version of the match. The identical yr, Arora gained the 50m breaststroke champion in South Asian Games in Kathmandu, Nepal, with a brand new nationwide report. Earlier this week, Arora had created a brand new nationwide report within the ladies’s 50m breaststroke occasion at Guwahati with a report timing of 32.94 seconds in heats earlier than she gained the gold medal within the occasion with a timing of 33.22 within the ultimate to say the gold medal. The nationwide report in 50m breaststroke occasion meant that Arora grew to become the primary Indian girl to enter the 32 seconds bracket within the occasion.

“The opening day national record in the 50m breaststroke heats meant that whatever I was targeting in these nationals was on point and to win the gold on the opening day made me believe that I am on the right track. The last one year has seen me training under my coach Sandeep Sejwal and my next target would be the upcoming National Games,” stated Arora.