Friday, November 2, 2007

Assam’s record breaking swimmer to be felicitated

Bhargav Phukan, who broke two national swimming records and bagged three gold in the National School Games Swimming Competition held at Surat, Gujarat, recently will be felicitated by the Jorhat Swimming Society on Sunday (Nov 4).

Phukan is a student of the Jorhat Govt Boys’ HS & MP School and a trainee of Jorhat Swimming society.

He had smashed the national record in the 50-metre breaststroke event in the under-14 boys’ category to clinch his second gold.

Phukan had clocked 33.60 seconds to break the previous record set by J Agenshwa of Tamil Nadu in 2003.

The Jorhat lad claimed his first gold on October 25 in the 100-metre breaststroke event in the same category by clocking 1:15:97 minutes. He bettered the earlier record set by Sanjib Chatterjee (1:16:13 minutes) in 1997.

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