Star swimmer Dhinidhi breaks own national record in 400m freestyle, clocks time of 4:21.86

Star-swimmer Dhinidhi Desinghu shattered the national record in the 400m freestyle category at the Asian Youth Games in Bahrain on Monday.

Clocking a time of 4:21.86, Dhinidhi bettered her own record by three seconds to finish fifth.

Dhinidhi’s compatriot Aditi Satish Hegde, who had clocked 4:29.22 in the heat, finished seventh in 4:32.00 seconds in the final. The Indian girls’ 4x100m freestyle relay team finished last in the final with a time of 4:05.73 seconds.

Nitishsai Harniath in boys’ 50m freestyle finished fifth with a time of 23.72 seconds after making the final race with a time of 23.71 seconds.

In the boys’ 100m butterfly, Vedant Tandale ended seventh, clocking 56.31 seconds after an identical time in the heat.

In the boys’ 400m freestyle, Shashikumar Dhakshan came in seventh with a time of 4:00.87 seconds after qualifying for the final in 4:03.61 seconds.

In other disciplines

Indian shuttlers and table tennis players began their campaign on a promising note, with many of them advancing to the pre-quarterfinals even as the 3×3 basketball team suffered a quarterfinal loss to Iran.

Shuttler Vennala Kalagotla in girls’ singles defeated Sri Lanka’s Nethmi Ratnayeke 23-21, 21-10 in the round of 32, while in boys’ singles Tankara Talasila beat Singapore’s Tee Kai 21-15, 21-15 to make it to the pre-quarters.

The mixed doubles pair of Param Choudhary and Aanya Bisht, however, lost to South Korea’s Na Seon Jae/Kim Bohye 8-21, 15-21 in the opening round.

In 3×3 basketball, Indian girls suffered a quarterfinal loss to Iran 15-10.

Indian boxers had a mixed day with 15-year-old Lanchenba Singh Moibungkhongbam beating the Philippines opponent Aamya Jefferson 4-1 in the 50kg girls’ quarterfinal, while Devendra Chaudhary lost his 75kg quarterfinal bout to China’s Guan Yiwen 5-0.

Udham Singh Raghav lost his 54kg quarterfinal bout to Ryusei Kitamura 3-1.

In the boys’ cycling Individual Time Trial final, Aditya Jakhar finished sixth in 22:41.54 seconds, while in handball, the Indian girls easily overcame Hong Kong-China 22-12 in Group A.

Indian paddlers enjoyed a good day with Sarthak Arya and Syndrela Das moving into the pre-quarters of mixed doubles with an 11-6, 11-3, 11-4 win against Maldives’ Nafiz Aishath and Mohamed Rafiu.

The other mixed doubles pair of Divyanshi Bhowmick and Ritvik Gupta beat Imran Muhammad and Amina Adam of the Maldives 11-5, 11-5, 11-4 to enter the Round of 16.

In boys’ singles, Sarthak Arya won his group match against John Marin of the Philippines 11-8, 11-8, 7-11, 11-7, while in girls’ singles, Hansini Mathan advanced to the pre-quarters with an 11-1, 11-8, 11-3 win against Amina Adam of the Maldives.

(with inputs from PTI)

Published on Oct 27, 2025