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Swimmer Sajan Prakash sets national record in 200m freestyle

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New Delhi, June 27: A day after achieving the elusive ‘A’ cut for the Olympics, swimmer Sajan Prakash continued his purple patch by setting a new national record in the 200m freestyle event at the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy on Sunday. Prakash clocked 1:49.73 seconds in the heats at the FINA-accredited Olympic Qualifier, bettering the 2010 Asian Games bronze medallist Virdhawal Khade’s previous national mark of 1:49.86 seconds. Prakash has been on a record-breaking spree. On Saturday, he created history by becoming the first-ever Indian swimmer to breach the Olympic Qualifying Time, clocking a record-breaking 1:56:38 seconds in the men’s 200m butterfly event. Prakash rewrote his own national record of 1:56.96s that he had set last week at the Belgrade Trophy swimming competition. (PTI)02

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