NEW DELHI, JULY 5: The Swimming Federation of India (SFI) today announced a 71-member list of probables for the Asia Pacific championship to be held at the Talkatora Pool here from August 22-24.The SFI selection committee, which met here yesterday at the end of the National Sub-junior championship, named 20 swimmers, including six women, for the South Asian Federation Games to come off in Kathmandu in September.
The squads for the Asia-Pacific meet will be undergoing coaching in camps to begin in Delhi and Bangalore from July 15, an SFI release today said.
The two major names missing from the SAF probables list are freestyle ace Sebastian Xavier and top butterfly swimmer Suresh Kumar. Xavier could not attend the trials, but is expected to be included at a later stage.
The squad for the Asia Pacific meet includes 22 girls and 15 divers. Competition will be held in open (18 years and above), Group I (15-17 years), Group II (13-14) and Group III (11-12) categories.
Probables
Boys: Open: T ASurjith, Martin Joseph (both SSCB), M Satish Kumar, Kalish Nath, T K Senthil Kumar, Raja Ram Tokas, Kehar Singh, Abhijit Jayathirth (all Police), Sandeep Kakkar (Del).
Group I: Elvis Ali Hazarika, Deepak Singh (both Police), Reji Kumar, Nukul Narayan, Pavan S, Vinay V (all Kar), Sachin Kakkar (Del), Akbar Ali Mir (Ben), Kaustabh Radkar (Mah).
Group II: Sudip Chaterjee, Rahul Batra, Rohan D'Souza, Ashwin Kumar (all Kar), Amar Murlidharan, Riyad Patra, Avinash Kriplani, Jay Shah (all Mah), Gaurav Mondal, Snehshish Mukherjee (both Ben).
Group III: Parikshit Shetty, Saurabh Mundra (both Mah), Rehan Poncha, Ashish Kulkarni (both Kar), I Shivanand (Mani), M Santosh Chary (AP).
Girls: Open: M Usha (Ker), Rajshree Chakraborty (Ben).
Group I: Nisha Millet, Reshma Millet, Chitra K (all Kar), Zeba Wadia (Mah), Richa Mishra (Del), Patul Nandy (Ben).
Group II: Shikha Tandon, Archana Bhushan, Nisha Mohite (all Kar), Tejaswi Shetty, Bhavna Sharma, Madhurika Ghatge (allMaha), Divya Chandrashekar (Del).
Group III: Shruti Reddy, Manshi Shelke (both Maha), Ambica Iyengar, S Sampada (both Kar), Shruti Arunkumar (TN), Meenakshi Tokas (Del)
Diving (Boys) Open: Umesh Prasad, Bhav Sahib Dhige (both RSCB), G Prem Kumar (SSCB).
Group I: Sachin Tripathi (UP), Yogesh H Watve (SSCB).
Group II: M S Jawalkar (Maha), M Kunj Kishor Singh (Mani), G B Sharath (Kar).
Group III: Swaraj Patil (Maha).
Girls (Open): Ishani Ghosh, Sweta Gogtay (both RSCB), Viraz Patil.
Group I: Suparna Paul (Ben).
Group II: Shruti Srivastava (MP).
Group III: Avni Shah, Pooja C Gosani (both Maha).
Probables for SAF games:
Men: Elvis Ali Hazarika, T A Surjith, Martin Joseph, Kailash Nath, Amar Murlidharan, T K Senthil Kumar, Sachin Kakkar, Raja Ram, Kehar Singh, Deepak Singh, S Pavan, Shreesh Reddy, J Abhijit, H S Hakimudeen.
Women: Nisha Millet, Shikha Tandon, Reshma Millet, Richa Mishra, Zeba Wadia, TejaswiShetty.
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