RAJKOT: History seems to have repeated itself. Seven years ago, double Olympian swimmer Sajan Prakash had dominated the National Games in Kerala by claiming an astonishing six gold and three silver medals to be crowned the ‘Best Athlete’ of the Games. It was a superhuman effort from Sajan, the performance giving the Kerala swimmer the confidence to achieve the qualification mark for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics in the men’s 200m butterfly event.
Participating in his second National Games here in Gujarat, Sajan, the first-ever Indian swimmer to breach the FINA ‘A’ Olympic qualification mark when he clocked the national record time of 1:56.38 in 200m butterfly at the Sette Colli meet in Rome last year, left his fellow competitors in his wake by putting on amemorable show of masterful swimming at the Sardar Patel Aquatics Complex.
