Seven new meet records (NMR's), making it a dozen in two days is enough evidence that these budding aspirants mean business. After all at stake is a place on respective state squads' for the Nationals, to be held later this year. The Junior Nationals are to be held at Jodhpur from June 21 and the Sub-Junior event at Ludhiana in the first week of July.

However, putting on the star act were Zeba Wadia of IIT and Parikshit Shetty who won all their events in the girls under-18 and boys under-13 sections. In fact had Zeba's 200m backstroke result not been on hold -- with regard to an NMR, she along with Parikshit would of made it `a record in each event participated,' on Friday.

For Zeba, `determination' remained her forte. It helpedfirst rewrite the 100m freestyle record with 1:05.84 to better Aurangabad's Nandita Shriniwasan 1:07.43s last year.

Later, with a 5:33.92s effort in the 400m Individual Medley she lowered Greater Mumbai's Sonia Suri effort, set last year, by a huge 21 second margin to take her NMR tally to four.

Parikshit set records in two varied events -- two NMR's -- the first in the 100m freestyle and then the 100m backstroke to erase Avinash Kriplani's name from the books.

In the two-lap freestyle the record-margin remained 0.09s, while going backwards his effort was 0.29s better than the marks set in 1998.

Among the other NMR's, 15-year-old Tejaswi Shetty, of CES Barfiwalla H.S (Andheri) lowered Sindoor Thakkar's 1998 mark in the girls under-15 100m freestyle. Touching in at 1:04.34s, Tejaswi remained .33s better than Sindoor.

In the boys under-18 section, Sandeep Verma brought off the best effort today knocking 31s off Aditya Shroff's 400m IM mark set in 1994.

Later, Bhavna Sharma of Swami Vivekananda H.C.,Chembur erased the 200m backstroke record in the under-15 event. At 2:45.72s she put aside Nanita Khurana's '96 mark of 2:47.83s by two seconds.

After two days Greater Mumbai have bagged 24 off 44 events held, while the host's have just managed four.

RESULTS

BOYS

(U-18; 100m Freestyle): Kaustub Radkar (Pune; 58.53s); Anirudh Dutt (Gr.Mumbai; 1:00.09s); Sidhant Nagrani (Gr.Mumbai; 1:00.8s).

(400m Ind. Medley): Sandeep Verma (Mumbai Sub; 5:31.41s -- NMR); Rajendra More (Kol; 5:31.45s); Sidhant Nagrani (Gr.Mumbai; 5:35.84s).

(200m Backstroke): Kaustub Radkar (Pune; 2:33.84s); Sandeep Verma (Mumbai Suburb; 2:34.03s); Sidhant Nagrani (Gr.Mumbai; 2:35.16s).

(U-15; 100m Freestyle): Jay Shah (Pune; 1:00.37s); Amar Murlidharan (Pune; 1:00.46s); Avinash Kriplani (Gr.Mumbai; 1:01.20s).

(400m Ind. Medley): Riyad Palia (Gr.Mumbai; 5:15.32s); Avinash Kriplani (Gr.Mumbai; 5:17.86s); Varun Divgikar (Gr.Mumbai; 5:25.24s).

(200m Backstroke): Riyad Palia(Gr.Mumbai; 2:28.32s); Avinash Kriplani (Gr.Mumbai; 2:29.19s); Jai Shah (Gr.Mumbai; 2:32.72s).

(U-13; 100m Freestyle): Parikshit Shetty (Gr.Mumbai; 1.00.60s -- NMR); Saurabh Mundra (Gr.Mumbai; 1:04.79s); Arjun Murlidharan (Pune; 1:06.25s).

(100m Backstroke): Parikshit Shetty (Gr.Mumbai; 1:10.59s -- NMR); Rohit Barve (Pune; 1:17.72s); Anujoy Bardhan (Thane; 1:19.44s).

(U-11; 200m IM): Kapil Nalang (Kol; 2:53.72s); Mohit Shetty (Gr.Mumbai; 2:53.86s); Vivardhan Kanoria (Gr.Mumbai; 2:24.24).

(50m Freestyle): Dhruv Rawat (Gr.Mumbai; 31.70s); Kapil Nalang (Kol; 32.28s); Visham Rawat (Pune; 33.44s).

(50m Butterfly): Kapil Nalang (Kol; 35.03s); Dhawal Bharitkar (Pune; 35.69s); Mohit Shetty (Gr.Mumbai; 35.88s).

GIRLS

(U-18; 100m Freestyle): Zeba Wadia (IIT; 1:05.84s -- NMR

); Radhika Lakhani (Gr.Mumbai; 1:12.14s); Smita Gavhane (Amravati; 1:12.29s).

(400m Ind. Medley): Zeba Wadia (IIT; 5:33.92s -- NMR); Neha Bhutkar (Pune;7:11.80s).

(200m Backstroke): Zeba Wadia (IIT; 2:43.37s); Delna Bhumgara (Gr.Mumbai; 2:49.19s); Smita Gawhane (Amravati; 3:03.34s).

(U-15; 100m Freestyle): Tejaswi Shetty (Gr.Mumbai; 1:04.34s -- NMR); Bhavna Sharma (Gr.Mumbai; 1:06.31s); Pooja Nair (Kol; 1:06.81s).

(400m Ind. Medley): Bhavna Sharma (Gr.Mumbai; 5:44.78s); Tejaswi Shetty (Gr.Mumbai; 5:48.22s); Madhurika Ghatge (Kol; 5:58.63s).

(200m Backstroke): Bhavna Sharma (Gr.Mumbai; 2:45.72s -- NMR); Rashi Oberoi (Gr.Mumbai; 2:47.23s -- BMR); Pooja Nair (Kol; 2:47.31s -- BMR).

(U-13; 100m Freestyle): Shruti Reddy (IIT; 1:07.75s); Pooja Ghorpade (Pune; 1:09.42s); Anuksha Parwani (Gr.Mumbai; 1:10.28s).

(100m Backstroke): Shruti Reddy (IIT; 1:18.28s); Sapna Desai (Gr.Mumbai; 1:18.64); Minita Shah (Gr.Mumbai; 1:21.40s).

(U-11; 200m IM): Avani Shetty (Gr.Mumbai; 3:03.18); Nirosha Mohan (Gr.Mumbai; 3:03.23s); Triparna Chakraborty (Gr.Mumbai; 3:03.94s).

(50mFreestyle): Karishma Memon (Gr.Mumbai; 33.15s); Nirosha Menon (Gr.Mumbai; 33.24s); Manali Lilani (Thane 33.24s).

(50m Butterfly): Nirosha Mohan (Gr.Mumbai; 35.65s); Triparna Chakroborthy (Gr.Mumbai; 35.68s); Karishma Menon (Gr.Mumbai; 37.31s).