PANAJI: Goa’s Sanjana Prabhugaonkar clinched silver medal in the 100m backstroke event at the ongoing 48th Junior National Aquatic Championships at the Biju Patnaik Swimming Pool, Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
Sanjana clocked 1:07.09 to finish behind Ridhima Veerendra Kumar of Karnataka, who created a New Meet Record in the event for Group 1 girls with a timing of 1:04.96. The young star from Bengaluru smashed Maana Patel’s record of 1:05.00 clocked in 2015.
In another event, Apeksha Fernandes of Maharashtra created a New Meet Record in the 100m breaststroke for Group 1 girls. She clocked 1:12.83 seconds to beat Karnataka’s Saanvi S Rao (1:16.81) and S Lakshya (1:17.58).
