The Indian men’s 4x100m medley relay team fell short of the podium by finishing fifth in the final. However they bettered their own national record for the second successive time on the day at the Asian Games. The quartet of Srihari Nataraj, Likhith Selvaraj, Sajan Prakash and Tanish George Mathew bettered the 3:40.84 timing set earlier in heat 1 in the day. They clocked an impressive 3:40.20 in the final.
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In the morning session of the day, the Indians had bettered the national record of 3:44.94 set by Nataraj, Sandeep Sejwal, Prakash, Aaron D’Souza in the last edition of the Games in Jakarta. They finished fourth overall to advance to the final.
In the final, China won the gold with a Asian record timing of 3:27.01. While the silver and bronze went to Korea (3:32.05) and Japan (3:32.52) respectively.
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The two other Indian swimmers competing in the day — Palak Joshi and Shivangi Sarma — failed to progress to the finals of their respective events. While Shivangi finished 17th in the women’s 100m freestyle event, Palak was (2:25.81) ranked 14 among 19 swimmers in the women’s 200m backstroke (58.31).
Aryan Nehra and Kushagra Rawat also disappointed by finishing seventh and eighth in the men’s 1500m freestyle event. But Aryan managed to achieve a personal milestone by setting a new national record of 15:20.91. He better the 15:23.66 set by Advait Page in 2021. Aryan’s previous personal best was 15:29.76. Kushagra finished last with a timing of 15:44.61.
