Sandeep Sejwal

Personal information
Full name	Sandeep Sejwal
Nationality	India
Born	(1989-01-23) January 23, 1989 (age 23)
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	160 pounds (73 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Stroke(s)	Breaststroke

Sandeep Sejwal (Devanagari:संदीप सेजवाल, born on January 23, 1989), is an Indian swimmer. He contested in the men's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but failed to reach the finals in both events.^[1]

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Sandeep Sejwal is the Senior National Champion and Indian National Record-holder in the 50 m, 100 m and 200 m Breaststroke events. He won silver medals at the Asian Indoor Games, 2007 in the 50 m and 100 m Breaststroke events.^[2][3][4]

Sandeep is an undergraduate student at St. Stephen's College, Delhi.^[4]

He is coached by Nihar Ameen^[5] in Bangalore.He is supported by GoSports Foundation, a sports non profit organisation that aims to promote sporting excellence in India.^[6]

Sandeep qualified in the swimming events for 2012 London Olympics after clocking 1:02.92s in the 100m breaststroke event at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai.^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sandeep's homepage

Virdhawal Khade

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Personal information
Full name	Virdhawal Vikram Khade
Nickname(s)	"Veer" (Brave)
Nationality	India
Born	(1991-08-29) August 29, 1991 (age 20) Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight	182 pounds (83 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Stroke(s)	Freestyle, Butterfly

Medal record
Competitor for  India
Swimming
Asian Games
Bronze	2010 Guangzhou	50m Butterfly

Virdhawal Vikram Khade (born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India) (Marathi: विरधवल खाडे) is an Indian swimmer. He competed in the men's 50 m, 100 m and 200 m Freestyle swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing setting an Indian national record in 100 m Freestyle while winning his unseeded heat, but failed to qualify for the semifinals in his events. He created history on 16 November 2010 when he won a medal after 24 years for India in swimming in the 50m butterfly category at the 2010 Asian games.

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He is the Indian National Record-holder in the 50 m,^[1] 100 m, 200 m and 400m Freestyle events and in the 50 m Butterfly event. Khade is Senior National Champion, 2006 in 50 m, 100 m, 200 m Freestyle and 50 m Butterfly. He won six Gold Medals and broke three Games Records at the South Asian Games, 2006 and won six Gold medals and broke five Games Records at the 33rd National Games, Guwahati.

He is the youngest ever Indian swimmer to qualify for an Olympics. Although he did not qualify for the semifinals of the 100m freestyle at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he did finish first in his heat (Heat 3) and set a new personal best of 50.07 seconds,^[2] placing him 42nd overall. He came 48th in the 200 m freestyle and 32nd in the 50 m.

On 16 November 2010 Virdhawal Khade became the first Indian swimmer since Khajan Singh to win a medal at the Asian Games when he went on to capture the Bronze in the 50m Butterfly event at the 16th Asian Games, Guangzhou, China.^[3][4][5]

He endorses Nike. He is a supporter of Pratham Books^[6] and an active participant in their work on popularising reading among young Indians.

Virdhawal is coached by Nihar Ameen^[7] and trains in Bangalore. He is supported by GoSports Foundation, a sports non profit organisation that aims to promote sporting excellence in India.^[8] A few of his best timings are:

• 50m Freestyle: 22.58sec* clocked at the Age group Asian Games, Japan, August 2009
• 100m Freestyle: 49.47sec clocked at the Commonwealth Youth Games, Pune, India, October 2008
• 200m Freestyle: 1:49.86sec clocked at the Commonwealth Youth Games, Pune, India, October 2008
• 400m Freestyle: 4:01.87sec clocked at the 51st MILO/PRAM Malaysia Invitation Open, May 2008
• 50m Butterfly: 24.25sec clocked at the Commonwealth Youth Games, Pune, India, October 2008

Virdhawal Khade has been recommended for the Arjuna awards 2010 in the swimming category.^[9]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Virdhawal's homepage
• Virdhawal's Blog
• Virdhawal's fanpage on Facebook

Nisha Millet (Kannada: ನಿಶಾ ಮಿಲೆಟ್; born March 20, 1982) is a swimmer from Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Nisha Millet, and the Arjuna Award winner, was the only woman in the 2000 Sydney Olympics swim team for India.

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Millet started swimming in 1991 at the age of 9 and won her first medal in 1992 at the sub junior nationals. Initially she was coached by her father at the Dolphin club in Chennai. When she showed a lot of promise by winning 4 Gold Medals as a 12yr old at the Senior National Championships held in Goa, her family shifted to Bangalore to focus on her swimming career^[1]. She then progressed on to represent India at various international competitions^[2][3]. It culminated with her representing India in Olympics at the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney after training under coach Pradeep Kumar at the Basavanagudi Aquatic Centre^[1]. She is the only Indian sports person to have won 14 gold medals ever at the 1999 national games held at Manipur and win the prime ministers "Best Sportswoman" award twice.

She had retired from a professional swimming career which spanned 16 years with over 600 gold medals at various domestic and international competitions. After her retirement, she has been working as swimming instructor at a variety of clubs in Bangalore such as Catholic Club. She is also involved with setting up a coaching facility primarily for swim coaching so as to improve the levels of coaching in the country.

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• Prime Minister's award for best sportswoman of the national games - 1997 and 1999.
• Highest Gold medals (14) in sports in the Manipur National Games - 1999
• Arjuna Award given to highest sports person in India - 2000
• Rajyotsava Award - 2001
• Karnataka State Ekalavya Award - 2002
• Afro-Asian games, women's backstroke Silver medal - 2003

External links[link]

• Nisha Millets Home Page

References[link]

See Also[link]

• India at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Basavanagudi Aquatic Centre

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