<p>Vaishnav Hegde of Puttur, representing the Indian Navy, returned with a rich haul of three gold medals and a silver in the Inter-Services Aquatic Championship held at Vishakhapatnam, recently.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The swimming championship was organised by INS CIRCARS (Eastern Naval Command Headquarters).</p>.<p class="bodytext">A release said that Vaishnav won gold medals in 50m breaststroke (29.3 sec also happened to be a new meet record), 100m breaststroke (1.06.06) and 4x50 metres Medley relay. He won a silver medal in 50 freestyle (24.20 sec).</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Naval team won the team championship this year after a gap of 60 years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">By virtue of good showing in the meet, Vaishnav has qualified for the 72nd Senior National Aquatic Championship, which will be held in Thiruvananthapuram from September 19 to 23.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He will be representing the Services team.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Currently, Vaishnav is being trained in Bengaluru. He was trained earlier by Partha Varanashi and Niroop G R at Balawana Swimming Pool, Puttur. Vaishnav is an old student of St Philomena College Puttur and Sudana Residential School Puttur.</p>
<p>Vaishnav Hegde of Puttur, representing the Indian Navy, returned with a rich haul of three gold medals and a silver in the Inter-Services Aquatic Championship held at Vishakhapatnam, recently.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The swimming championship was organised by INS CIRCARS (Eastern Naval Command Headquarters).</p>.<p class="bodytext">A release said that Vaishnav won gold medals in 50m breaststroke (29.3 sec also happened to be a new meet record), 100m breaststroke (1.06.06) and 4x50 metres Medley relay. He won a silver medal in 50 freestyle (24.20 sec).</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Naval team won the team championship this year after a gap of 60 years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">By virtue of good showing in the meet, Vaishnav has qualified for the 72nd Senior National Aquatic Championship, which will be held in Thiruvananthapuram from September 19 to 23.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He will be representing the Services team.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Currently, Vaishnav is being trained in Bengaluru. He was trained earlier by Partha Varanashi and Niroop G R at Balawana Swimming Pool, Puttur. Vaishnav is an old student of St Philomena College Puttur and Sudana Residential School Puttur.</p>