 "Paris Olympics 2024: India's swimming campaign ends after Srihari Nataraj and Dhinidhi Desinghu fail to qualify for semi-finals")
India’s campaign in swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics came to an early end after Srihari Nataraj and Dhinidhi Desinghu both failed to progress to the semi-finals from their respective events on Sunday.
While Nataraj finished joint-second in Heat 2 of the men’s 100m backstroke event, he finished 33rd in the overall standings, which was not enough to advance. He finished with a timing of 55.01s. The 16 fastest swimmers from the heats qualify to the semifinals.
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The performance was far from Nataraj’s personal best of 53.77s and was considerably slower than his season best time of 54.68s.
Making her Olympic debut, 14-year-old Dhinidhi, the youngest member of the Indian contingent, did well to top her 200m women’s freestyle heat.
Swimming in heat 1, which is the slowest heat, Dhinidhi touched the pads at 2:06.96. But the Indian finished 23rd out of 30 participants, which included three-time Olympic champion Australia’s Ariarne Titmus.
With PTI inputs
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