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Thiruvananthapuram made a large splash successful the pool, winning a flurry of medals to extremity up arsenic the wide champion successful the aquatic events of the State School Sports Meet.
Thiruvananthapuram garnered 649 points to decorativeness mode up of Thrissur (149 ponts) and Ernakulam (133) successful the points table. Thiruvananthapuram’s occurrence could beryllium attributed to the splendid show from trainees of Glenmark Aquatic Foundation (GAF) which is operating from SAI-LNCPE, Kariyavattom.
Palakkad Vadavannur VMHSS’s Nivedya K. wins golden successful the Junior Girls 800 m contention astatine the State School Sports Meet held connected Sunday astatine Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram. | Photo Credit: R.K. Nithin
The GAF is simply a not-for-profit inaugural of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited dedicated to beforehand competitory swimming successful India. The SAI-GAF centre became operational successful November 2021 and since past has been producing a clutch of champions who person made their people astatine nationalist level.
At the B.R. Ambedkar Aquatic Centre, the GAF trainees won 14 golden medals, 15 metallic and 5 bronze medals to boost Thiruvananthapuram’s medal tally. The medal winners included triple golden medallist and triple grounds holder Aajushi Avantika, triple golden medallists Mogam Theerdu Samdev and Mogam Yagna Sai, Kasthubh Nath, R.B. Bhagya Krishna and treble golden medallist Vinayak S. Kumar.
The GAF trainees were instrumental successful MVHSS Thundathil, winning the champion schoolhouse rubric with 118 points for the 2nd consecutive year.
Aajushi Avantika triple golden medalist and triple grounds holder successful schoolhouse games.
“The trainees were chosen aft all-India trials and they were escaped to take the centre for their training. We supply world-class grooming facilities and instrumentality attraction of their education. The students tin opt for the syllabus of their choice. Most of them opted for State syllabus and were attached to MVHSS Thundathil and the schoolhouse absorption was precise supportive to this initiative,’’ said GAF manager Jibin Abraham, coach. For the past 2 years, the beingness of GAF trainees, particularly those from different States, has improved the modular of swimming contention successful the School Games. The SAI-GAF trainees person besides made their beingness felt successful Khelo India games. Thirteen swimmers from the centre person qualified for the November School Nationals and volition beryllium hoping to make a large ripple there.
