Indian Swimming Thread ...

[mugu]

Inter-Railway swimming records (Men)
(as on Aug 2003):
50m free: Sebastian Xavier 23.62
100m free: Sebastian Xavier 54.62
200m free: Akbar Ali Mir 1:59.57
400m free: Akbar Ali Mir 4:23.13
800m free: S. Bandhopadhyay 9:21.22
1500m: Akbar Ali Mir 17:40.24
50m back: Dipesh Bairagi 28.83
100m back: Akbar Ali Mir 1:02.31
200m back: Akbar Ali Mir 2:14.11
50m breast: Veeramani 31.50
100m breast Sebastian Xavier 1:10.66
200m breast: R. Jaya Kumar 2:38.10
50m fly: S. Chatterjee 26.83
100m fly: Akbar Ali Mir 58.49
200m fly: Akbar Ali Mir 2:10.54
200IM: Akbar Ali Mir 2:16.25
400IM: Habib Ali Mir 4:56.00

[mugu]

All India Police records (Men)
(as on September 2003):
50m free: Alvis Hazarika 24.38
100m free: S. H. Hakimuddin 54.75
200m free: Amar Muralidharan 2:00.13
400m free: Kailash Nath 4:12.67
1500m free: Mandar Anand Divase 16:50.97
50m back: Yudhvir Singh 28.44
100m back: T.K. Sethil Kumar 1:01.99
200m back: T. K. Senthil Kumar 2:14.55
50m breast: Harinder Singh 30.28
100m breast: Deepak Kumar 1:06.73
200m breast: Deepak Kumar 2:29.93
50m fly: Elvis Hazarika 26.78
100m fly: Khajan Singh 57.55
200m fly: Khajan Singh 2:08.34
200 IM: Deepak Kumar 2:14.55
400 IM: Kailash Nath 4:47.69

[mugu]

Senior National championship, Oct 2004:
(winners only)
Men:: 50m free: Varun Divgekar 24.00; 100m free: T. A. Sujith 53.59; 200m free: Amar Muralidharan 1:58.03; 400m free: Rehan Poncha 1:59.15; 800m free: Mandar Divase 8:42.79 (National record); 1500m: Mandar Divase 16:33.60.
50m back: V. Arun 28.20; 100m back: T. K. Senthil Kumar 1:01.14; 200m back: T. K/ Senthil Kumar 2:11.97.
50m breast: Punit Rana 29.85 (National record); 100m breast: Punit Rana 1:05.05 (National record); 200m breast: Punit Rana 2:22.70 (National record).50m fly: K. Rajiv 26.29; 100m fly: Arjun Muralidharan 56.98; 200m fly: Arjun Muralidharan 2:05.87.
200IM: Arjun Muralidharan 2:12.49; 400IM: Rehan Poncha 4:42.19.
Women:
50m free: Shikha Tandon 26.87, 100m free: Shikha Tandon 59.37; 200m free: Charu Mishra 2:16.31; 400m free: Nisha Millet 4:31.87; 800m free: Charu Mishra 4:50.08; 1500m free: Charu Mishra 18:45.30.
50m back: Shikha Tandon 31.38; 100m bacl: Shikha Tandon 1:07.69; 200m back: Sikha Tandon 2:29.85.
50m breast: Saba Sait 35.63 (National record); 100m breast: Saba Sait 1:19.68; 200m breast: D. Mrudula 2:51.36.
50m fly: Richa Mishra 30.63; 100m fly: Richa Mishra 1:05.89; 200m fly: Richa Mishra 2:24.64.
200IM: Richa Mishra 2:29.16; 400IM: D. Mrudula 5:27.95.

[Dhruv]

Wow. Hopefully those records were in electronic format . Thanks for the posting all these.

[mugu]

Can't really vouch for that. I guess National championships in major centres would be eletronic. (The last one in Oct 2004 was held in Delhi and was electronically timed) As for meets like inter-university and some of the departmental meets, it could vary from centre to centre, year to year. All timings, however, are being given up to a hundredth of a second without indicating whether they are electronic or hand-timed. I will check this aspect out and post a clarification later. Thanks for the query; I am now more curious than yourself!

[BSharma]

Thanks mugu for all the records.

[mugu]

Thanks mugu for all the records.

You are welcome BS.
But pardon me for the delay in replying to a query you had raised on this thread quite sometime ago. About heated pools. I just saw it. How careless of me.
In fact I had come back to this thread after months! That's why I am replying to gbelday and others' query about Indian performances so late. There is still some more updating to be done, which I should be able to do tomorrow.
But before I retire for the day, back to you BS and your query about heated pools:
To my knowledge (and I had made enquiries about this recently, without seeing your post! what a coincidence) there is only one. Delhi's Talkatora pool!
Shocking?
I believe there are a couple of others which have been designed to use solar-heating, but they are not functional as such.
And we talk about hosting Olympics by 2020!

[Kumar]

Mugu thanx for the records... Heated Pools , Does it cost a lot of money to maintain Heated pools?

[Dhruv]

Not as bad if they are solar heated. The pool at the KD Singh Babu stadium is supposed to have solar panel heating as well but am not sure if that is functioning. As mugu mentioned the Talkatora pool (indoor one) is heated. The main pool outdoors is not heated (to the best of my knowledge) and neither is the diving pool.

[Kumar]

Thanks Dhurv..

I am not very familiar with Solar panel heating.. How low does the temp drop during winter in North India? Would that pose a problem with solar panel heating?

[BSharma]

I am not very familiar with Solar panel heating..

See the link below about solar heating of swimming pools.

Swimming pools require temperature of water to be heated to about 80 degree F unlike the heated water that is required for home use. Solar panels work well in heating the pools where electric supply is unpredictable or expensive.

How low does the temp drop during winter in North India? Would that pose a problem with solar panel heating?

The temperatures can drop to about 1 to 3 degrees centigrade on some days but usually there is sunshine, which can help the solar panels to heat the pool.

http://www.solardev.com/FSEC-pool-heating.php

[PKBasu]

I just saw the astonishingly comprehensive lists of record put together by mugu. Thanks for the amazing work mugu!!

[mugu]

Swimming: Indian National records: Women
(as on June 2004)
50m freestyle Shikha Tandon 26.50 25-10-03
100m freestyle Shikha Tandon 58.32 (R) 20-07-03
200m freestyle Nisha Millet 2:06.81 04-04-00
400m freestyle Nisha Millet 4:29.72 22-08-99
800m freestyle Shikha Tandon 9:20.56 02-04-00
1500m freestyle Nisha Millet 18:42.72 21-09-03
50m back-stroke Shikha Tandon 31.32 21-09-03
100m back-stroke Shikha Tandon 1:06.95 20-09-03
200m back-stroke Sangeeta Rani Puri 2:28.06 15-09-95
50m breast-stroke Saba Sait 36.06 19-12-02
100m breast-stroke Sajini Shetty 1:17.35 09-06-97
200m breast-stroke Sajini Shetty 2:46.39 05-06-97
50m butterfly Richa Mishra 30.07 18-12-02
100m butterfly Richa Mishra 1:04.81 22-09-03
200m butterfly Richa Mishra 2:19.58 24-07-03
200m IM Shikha Tandon 2:28.22 04-08-02
400m IM Richa Mishra 5:05.85 25-08-02
4x100m freestyle Indian team 4:08.20 09-12-98
4x200m freestyle Karnataka 9:01.27 23-09-03
4x100m medley Karnataka 4:42.73 08-06-97
Some of the above records were bettered in the 2004 National.Check on previous page for the National result

[PKBasu]

It's interesting that 3 current swimmers have most of the National records. In particular, Shikha Tandon appears to be amazingly versatile, holding records in different strokes and in distances ranging from 50m to 800m. She should perhaps choose 2-3 distances to focus on and try and hone her skills to world standards in those.

[Red_Indian]

With due respect to Shikha's (undoubted) talent, that reflects, more than anything else, the lack of depth/ competition in India.