{"id":32225,"date":"2025-09-29T20:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=32225"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:59:06","slug":"nepali-swimmer-atharva-sets-two-national-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nepali-swimmer-atharva-sets-two-national-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepali swimmer Atharva sets two national records"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 29: Nepali swimmer Atharva Singh set two new national records today at the 11th Asian Aquatics Championship.<\/p>\n<p>In the championship held in Ahmedabad, India, Atharva completed the men&#8217;s 1500-meter freestyle in 17 minutes 43.57 seconds, breaking the 10-year-old record of 18 minutes 45.62 seconds set by Shirish Gurung.<\/p>\n<p>In the same event, Nepal&#8217;s Kalkin Shrestha also surpassed Shirish&#8217;s record. Kalkin completed the distance in 18 minutes 11.11 seconds, according to chief swimming coach Shankar Karki.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Atharva set another record in the 400-meter individual medley, breaking the five minutes 4.70 seconds record established by Shirish in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 29: Nepali swimmer Atharva Singh set two new national records today at the 11th Asian Aquatics Championship. In the championship held in Ahmedabad, India, Atharva completed the men&#8217;s 1500-meter freestyle in 17 minutes 43.57 seconds, breaking the 10-year-old record of 18 minutes 45.62 seconds set by Shirish Gurung. In the same event, Nepal&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32227,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32225\/revisions\/32227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}