![]() ![]() These swimmers are some of the best in the world and Fink and Ledecky are the best in the world in distance freestyle events. Names like Bobby Fink, Caeleb Dressel, Katie Ledecky, Kieran Smith. That’s really made the difference and kinda helped me get to that next level so to speak.”īy swimming at the University of Florida, Nehra is part of the Collegiate team there, he benefits from being in the vicinity of an extensive pro group there as well: swimmers who are out of their college years, but are professional swimmers – they swim for a living. Not being much faster than what I was in 2019 up until recently, just being able to work on those small things at Florida and pick that up from some of the best in the world I train with day in and day out. A couple of other small things like my turns, my underwater, and everything that’s been a pretty big thing for me last season,” he says.įlorida has made all the difference. So just learning to swim with the field, swim my own race but still swim it in a way that I can manage to win the race. I understand what part of the race I need to focus on just hanging with them when I need to turn the switch and try and go beyond that, overtake them or whatever. Just keeping myself in the race, playing it to my strengths. When I have faster swimmers, pretty experienced swimmers than me who are next to me. “The biggest thing is learning to race better. Last fall, his sponsors – Inspire Institute of Sports – arranged for a spot on the Florida University’s swimming program, and the results have followed almost immediately. He realised he was good at it, and started dropping out of the other sports to focus on the pool. Swimming was merely a survival skill to be learnt before he started enjoying it way too much and it got winninger too. His childhood growing up in Ahmedabad teemed with sports – tennis, golf, rink skating, a spot of football. But it’s what I’ve always been best at and we’ll find out when we get to World Championships and Asian Games which one I’m better at now. ![]() “Also, you swim for 15 minutes or 16 minutes and you find out you don’t have a Personal Best, so it sucks in that sense. It’s such a difficult and long event that if I swim it 5 or 6 times in a season I’m probably not gonna have as many great and amazing 1500s as I will 400s or 800s. I’m trying to think of the right words – it’s not high maintenance, but it’s just harder to get right. “I lean towards 1500, it’s what I’ve been the best at. The teenaged sensation considers 1500m his pet event as much as the 800m, despite its rigours and limited returns. I’m never gonna complain about PB, if I get gold and national record and PB it’s very crazy of me not to be happy with that,” he says. ![]() Frankly, I could’ve been much slower and still called it a good race. I don’t see any point in beating myself up for not being faster. “Under those conditions, it is as about as much I can realistically expect. So, he was pretty happy once he found out. It was a personal best (PB) for him by two-lengths. The 800 came on the back of new meet records in 400m (3:52.55) and 1500m (15:29.76), where he went past Kushagra Rawat’s 15:38.13. And then just be a little stronger and faster to be quicker than that,” he says. “Replicating that race in a world-class facility, indoors and everything, swimming against people that are faster might just push me that extra 1 or 2 per cent and I’ll be able to get under 8. But the race Nehra executed at Hyderabad over the 800 to clock 8:01.81 was near perfect, even if the conditions were difficult – outdoor pool, warm humid climate and sunny. The 19-year-old from Ahmedabad is the latest sensation over the freestyle distance events – 800m and 1500m – where India boasts a good crop of swimmers, all pushing each other to better timings. ![]() But ideally, I get it at the world’s and build upon that heading into Asian Games.” “If I don’t get it there, I’m fairly confident I should have it by Asian Games. “Hopefully, at the World Championships,” he says of achieving it at the Japanese port city of Fukuoka. On a record-breaking spree at the Nationals at Hyderabad this last fortnight, Aryan Nehra hopes to be the first Indian to dip under-8 minutes over 800 metres. ![]()
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