Belgrade Open Swimming: India won 3 Gold Medals but missed Olympic Qualification

• 21 Jun 2021

• Indian swimming contingent won three gold, one Silver and one Bronze at the Belgrade Open Swimming competition, a FINA-accredited Olympic Qualifying event, but missed the qualifying mark to be a part of Tokyo Olympics.
• India’s Sajan Prakash won gold in the men’s 200 meters butterfly event in the Belgrade Open Swimming competition, but narrowly missed qualifying for the Tokyo Olympic Games. He fell short of the ‘A’ qualification.
• Srihari Nataraj won gold in men’s 100m backstroke. His timing was, however, slower than the ‘A’ qualification.
• Shoan Ganguli won the third gold medal for India, in the 400m medley. However, he has so far not overcome the ‘B’ qualification time.
• Maana Patel won a Silver medal in the women’s 50m backstroke.
• Tanish Mathew settled for bronze in the men’s 200m butterfly.
• Six Indian swimmers, including Prakash, have achieved the ‘B’ qualification time in the 2019-2020 Olympic qualification cycle. ‘A’ qualification time guarantees an automatic berth.
• Indian swimmers, particularly Nataraj and Prakash, will get a last chance to crack the ‘A’ qualification time next week in Rome.