{"id":39962,"date":"2018-08-23T11:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T11:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=39962"},"modified":"2018-08-23T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T11:22:32","slug":"asiad-swimming-khade-natraj-enter-finals-with-new-national-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/asiad-swimming-khade-natraj-enter-finals-with-new-national-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Asiad swimming: Khade, Natraj enter finals with new national records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jakarta,<\/p>\n<p>Virdhawal Khade and Srihari Natraj created new national records to qualify for the finals of the 50m butterfly and 200m backstroke events at the Asian Games, here on Thursday.Khade clocked 24.09sec to top Heat 2 and was placed fifth overall. The effort was better than his own nine-year old national record which was set with a time of 24.14 at the Asian Championship at Foshan, China in 2009.Khade has created two national records at this edition of the Games as he had bettered his own mark in the men\u2019s 50m freestyle\u2014the event in which he narrowly missed a bronze.<\/p>\n<p>In 200m backstroke event, Natraj moved to the final by improving upon his own national mark with a timing of 2:02.97 which placed him seventh overall. It was better than his previous 2:03.17 mark. At the 2018 CWG, he had managed 2:04.75.Anshul Kothari, however, continued to struggle as he crashed out of the men\u2019s 50m butterfly. He topped the three-man Heat by clocking 25.45sec but that placed him 28<sup>th<\/sup> among 40 swimmers. He was ousted from men\u2019s 50m freestyle earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Khade also had a disappointing result in 100m freestyle event as he finished last in his heat and was placed 43<sup>rd<\/sup> overall with a timing of 59.11.Compatriot Aaron Desouza was best in his heat with a timing of 51.50sec but that placed him 27<sup>th<\/sup> overall. Also bowing out was Advait Page, who managed a 12<sup>th<\/sup> position in men\u2019s 200m backstroke by clocking 2:06.85.The finals will be held in the evening session.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jakarta, Virdhawal Khade and Srihari Natraj created new national records to qualify for the finals of the 50m butterfly and 200m backstroke events at the Asian Games, here on Thursday.Khade clocked 24.09sec to top Heat 2 and was placed fifth overall. The effort was better than his own nine-year old national record which was set [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39964,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39962\/revisions\/39964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}