38th Sub-Junior National Aquatic C'ships : Laitonjam Lanchenba bags three more gold medals, adjudged best swimmer
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 26 2022:
Young Manipuri swimmer Laitonjam Lanchenba was adjudged "best swimmer" of the 38th Sub-Junior National Aquatic Championships held at Rajkot after his rare 5 medal winning feat.
Lanchenba who won a gold medal in the 100 m breaststroke with a time of 1:21.37 on June 24 and a silver medal in the 200 m medley event yesterday with a time of 2:38.75, went on to bag three more gold medals in the today to take his medal tally to 5 .
Lanchenba, who hails from Singjamei Thokchom Leikai, won his second gold medal in the 50 m breaststroke event with the best time of 38.38 seconds.
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He clocked 30.71 seconds in the 50 m butterfly event to secure his fourth medal and third gold before taking the 50 m freestyle gold with a timing of 29.38 seconds.
Manipur's L Dickson also scored 300.05 points in the highboard diving for Boys' Group I to secure a silver medal.
The State team were led by H Gojen as coach cum manager.
It may be noted that swimming prodigy, Lanchenba is the son of L Kanta Meitei and L ongbi T Sonia Devi and started taking swimming lessons from coaches H Dhamen and M Purnachandra at Wangkhei Ningthem Pukhri Mapal from his early age.
Having trained for about 2 years at Wangkhei Ningthem Pukhri Mapal, he has been undertaking swimming classes at Modern College Swimming Pool since 2021 under T Thouba who is an international swimmer.
Lanchenba had also won a silver and a bronze medal in the previous edition of the championship held in Bangalore.