DAV Sahibabad clinch two overall titles at Inter-DAV Swimming Meet

Ghaziabad: DAV Sahibabad emerged overall champions in the Under-14 girls’ and Under-19 boys’ categories at the swimming events of the Inter-DAV National Sports Meet, held at the SPM Swimming Pool.

DAV Sahibabad’s Under-14 girls secured the title with 49 points, while DAV West Bengal topped the Under-19 and Under-14 boys’ categories with 92 and 69 points, respectively. In the Under-17 girls’ category, DAV Telangana won with 64 points, while Police DAV Punjab claimed the Under-17 boys’ title with 74 points.

Naika Sharma of DAV Sahibabad won the Under-19 girls’ 200m backstroke in 3 minutes 13.68 seconds. A. Bhattacharya of West Bengal finished second, followed by Sanyogita of Bilaspur.

In the Under-19 50m freestyle, Gaurav Raj of Colaba won the boys’ event, while K. Ghosh topped the girls’ competition. DAV West Bengal finished first in the Under-14 boys’ medley relay, with Navi Mumbai second and Sahibabad securing the next two positions.

Rakshit Goyal, with 35 points, was named Best Athlete in the Under-19 boys’ category, followed by Shivaji Rao of Haryana and S. Malik of Sahibabad. Geetika of Bilaspur claimed the Under-19 girls’ award with 35 points, ahead of Arpita of Delhi and Ayushi of Maharashtra. Komal of Odisha topped the Under-14 category, followed by Vasudhara and Aditya Rao.

The awards were presented by Arjuna Awardee Bhanu Sachdeva, DAV Sahibabad Principal Monika, Baghpat Principal Praveen Kumar, Suresh Deshwal, Swimming Federation of India vice-president Rajkumar and S.K. Sahu, chairman of the Delhi Swimming Ad-hoc Committee.

More than 113 swimmers from DAV schools across the country participated in the competition.

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