POKHARA, OCTOBER 18

Duana Lama bagged nine gold medals, while Nasir Yahya Hussain claimed seven and Gaurika Singh won five as Tribhuvan Army Club clinched the team championship in swimming under the Ninth National Games here at the Fishtail Academy today.

TAC finished at the top of the table with 20 gold, nine silver and seven bronze medals. Ashley Sapkota Dangol bagged five gold medals as NRNA were a distant second with nine gold, six silver and one bronze medals. Nepal APF Club came third with three gold, four silver and six bronze medals.

Province-I and Nepal Police Club won one gold medal each, while Bagmati finished at the bottom of the table with four silver and 10 bronze medals.

A total of 17 national records were shattered in the tournament after three swimmers set four new marks on the final day of the competition. Aashish Sapkota of NRNA broke national records in 400m Individual Medley and 200m butterfly events.

Sapkota won the 400m IM gold in 4:35.36 breaking his own mark of 4:58.49. Prarambha Bhandari of Province-I came second in 5.12.09, while Sauren Bahadur Singh of APF was third in 5:12.15. Sapkota then bettered his previous best of 2:16.43 on his way to winning 200m butterfly gold with the new timing of 2:09.45. Anubhav Subba of TAC wassecond in 2:26.60 and Sauren Bahadur Singh of APF came third in 2:27.45.

Duana Lama won the 100m breaststroke event gold with a record time of 1:16.63, improving on her previous best of 1:16.99. Fellow TAC swimmer Upasti Maharjan came second in 1:22.39, while Adupsha Vaidya of NPC was third in 1:22.67. Lama also won 400m freestyle gold with the timing of 4:43.92.

Bikash Kumal of Province-I set the new mark in 100m breaststroke after he won gold in 1:07.93. He broke the record of 1:08.15 held by Shuvam Shrestha. Nasir Yahya Hussain of TAC came second in 1:08.46, while Aashish Sapkota of NRNA was third in 1:08.80.

In other events, Ashley Sapkota Dangol of NRNA won 50m freestyle gold in 27.89 seconds, while Alexander Shah bagged men's section gold in 23.87s.

A version of this article appears in the print on October 19 2022 of The Himalayan Times.