Swimming Sensation: 16-Year-Old Tanishi Gupta Breaks Maana Patel’s 100m Backstroke National Record
Sometimes history is measured not in minutes or metres but in fractions of a second For Tanishi Gupta it was just seconds The -year-old swimmer clocked an impressive in the women s m backstroke at the Junior National Aquatics Championships in Bhubaneswar breaking the previous national record of held by Maana Patel It was a stunning performance that underlined Gupta s rapid rise in Indian swimming and added another national record to her growing list of achievements Another Record Joins the ListThe backstroke triumph was not Gupta s only record-breaking performance at the championships She also stormed to a national record in the m butterfly clocking seconds and surpassing her own previous mark Together the performances paint a picture of a young swimmer who is becoming increasingly difficult to overlook Her latest success also highlights the growing depth of talent emerging through India s junior swimming circuit where young athletes
