Jain University bags four gold medals in swimming at Khelo India University Games

Bengaluru: Bengaluru-based Jain University maintained the top position in the Khelo India University Games on the third day yesterday. Their dominance in the swimming competition helped them keep the top spot in the medal tally. They won four of the ten gold medals in swimming.

Eight records were broken in the pool yesterday. Shubham Dhaygude of Savitribai Phule University, Pune set a new KIUG record in the Men's 1500 freestyle swimming event.

In the 50-metre



men's breaststroke event Danush Suresh of Anna University set a new KIUG record breaking the previous record held by Ansh Arora. Similarly, Aryan Panchal of Gujarat University broke the previous record in 200 metre butterfly and Siva Sridhar of Jain University in the 200 metre backstroke event.

The second spot in the medal tally has gone to the University of Mumbai and the third spot to Savitribai Phule University, Pune.