THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, NOV 12: Spearheaded by Nisha Millet and Tashina Singh, Karnataka's dominance in the women's section continued with its swimmers winning all the three golds at stake on the fourth day of the 52nd senior National Aquatics championship here this evening.

In the men's events, 28-year-old Sebastian Xaiver, who anchored his team to win the first swimming gold in the 4x100m free style in the morning, continued his good work, winning his first individual gold when he won the 200m individual medley with a timing of 2 min 16.36 seconds, while Kerala's TK Senthil won his second gold, pocketing the 200m back stroke in 2m 13.23s.

In the men's three metre spring board diving, Umesh Prasad of Railways added one more gold to his kitty when he won the gold logging 437.75 points ahead of reigning chamion Taraknath Hait also of Railways and Yogesh Watve of Maharshtra. While Taraknath tallied 427.40 points, Watve got 426.80 points.

Results

Women 200m individual medley: 1 Tashina Singh (Kar) 2:36.87s; 2 Sumy Ciryac (Ker) 2:40.31s; 3 K Chitra (Kar) 2:35.65s. 200m back stroke: Nisha Millet (Kar) 2.33.45s, 2 Tashina Singh (Kar) 2:35.65s; 3 V Remya (Ker) 2:41.82s. 4x200m free style relay: 1 Karnataka (Dharshana, Tashina, Chitra, Nisha) 9:31.72s; Kerala (Sumisha, Usha, Remya, Sumi Cyriac) 9:45.06s; 3 Bengal (Rajeswari, Thumpa Mondal, Urmila, Rupali) 10:30.98s.

Men: 200m individual medley: 1 Sebastian Xavier (Rlys) 2:16.36s; 2 Shibu Sebastian (SSCB) 2:19.27s; 3 Dinesh Rajoria (Police) 2:20.79s. 200m back stroke: 1 TK Senthil Kumar (Ker) 2:13.23s; 2 Sandeep Kakkar (Del) 2:16.71s; 3 S Ganguly (Rlys) 2:18.84s; 3m spring board: 1 Umesh Prasad (Rlys) 437.75 points; 2 Taraknath Hait (Rlys) 427.40 points; 3 Yogesh Watve (Mah) 426.80 points. 4x100 free style relay: 1 Railway (Antony, IC Raju, Sureshkumar, Sebastian Xaxier) 3:44.34s; 2 Police (Hakkimuddin, Sujeet, Kailashnath, Elvis) 3.45.62s; 3 SSCB (Rejimon, Benoy, Shibhu, Martin Joseph) 3.45.65s.

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