Bhubaneswar: A record 258 swimmers participated in the 62nd Odisha State Swimming Championship-22 that concluded on Monday.
Mannata Mishra of Bhubaneswar was declared the ‘best swimmer’ of the championship with 2134 FINA points in the Girls category and Anmol Mohanty of Cuttack with 2078 points was the ‘best swimmer’ in the boys category.
The championship in the Junior and Sub-junior level was organised jointly by the Odisha State Swimming Association and department of Sports & Youth Services at the Biju Patnaik Swimming Pool, Kalinga Stadium here. The tournament that was streamed live in the YouTube channel of Sports Odisha.
The other individual champions in their respective categories were:
Group II. Boys: Hitesh Moharana( 1742)
Sambalpur
Group II. Girls : Anshika A. Sahu ( 2015)
Bhubaneswar
Group III Boys:Kanhu Soren ( 1016)
KIIT & KISS
Group III Girls : Arpita Seth (927)
Sambalpur.
During the three-day tournament, Sports Minister, Tusharkanti Behera, Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Sports and Youth Services were the guests on the first day while Olympian Dilip Tirkey was the chief guest on second day.
The swimmers were awarded medals and trophies by Soma Mishra, Golapmani Mahanta, Bijay Kumar Dixit, Surendra Kumar Naik, Amar Ranjan Mahanty, Lakshmi Chandra Mahakur, Rabindra Kumar Rout, Manoj Banchhor and Lipsa Rout.
JSW, Odisha, provided the technical support to the tournament.
The eligible swimmers shall represent Odisha at the National Aquatic Championship’22 to be held at Rajkot (Sub-junior) from June 24 to 26 and Junior National at Bhubaneswar from July 16 to 20.
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