Tokyo 2020: Sajan Prakash becomes first Indian swimmer to qualify for Olympics
Xtra Time Web Desk: Indian swimmer Sajan Prakash created history by becoming the first-ever swimmer from the country to directly qualify for the Olympic Games. Sajan breached the qualification mark for Tokyo Olympics in the men’s 200m butterfly event at the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy. He cleared the ‘A’ standard of international swimming by clocking 1:56.48 mins.
Swimming in Lane 3 at the Sette Colli in Rome, Italy, the 27-year-old from Kerala breached the elusive ‘A’ Cut that stands formidably at 1:56.48 min. He picked gold – his second in two weeks after coming very close to slashing ‘A’ at Belgrade, Serbia, last week.
With this new record, Sajan Prakash rewrote his personal best of 1:56.96s that he had set last week at the Belgrade Trophy swimming competition.
