Budigina narrowly misses out on medal in para swimming

<p> Glasgow, Jul 24 (PTI): India narrowly missed out on a medal in para swimming as Karthik Budigina finished fourth in the men's 100m Freestyle S13 final at the Commonwealth Games here on Friday.</p><p> Budigina settled for the fourth place with a time of 57.57 seconds.</p><p> Imam Ali, the other Indian participant in the event, ended in seventh place, clocking 1:03.73 in the medal event.</p><p> South African Nathan Hendricks claimed the gold medal in 54.54s, while Scotland's Stephen Clegg bagged silver with 55.16s and England's Matthew Redfern secured bronze in 56.86s.</p><p> The S13 classification is for athletes with visual impairments.</p><p> Earlier in the day, Budigina and Imam Ali made the finals of the 100m freestyle S13 event after all the eight swimmers who competed in the heats got through.</p><p> While Budigina was third in the heats with a timing of 57.10sec, Ali was bottom of the heap with 1:05.32sec.</p><p> Budigina originally started his sports journey in rowing before transitioning to para-swimming during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p> Indian swimmer Srihari Nataraj had earlier qualified for the men's 50m backstroke semifinals, finishing joint 14th in heats.</p><p> Nataraj, a two-time Olympian who holds multiple national records, clocked 25.52 seconds alongside Bermuda's Jack Harvey, just about making the semifinal start list, which comprises the top 16 from heats.</p><p> The Indian was fifth in his eight-man heat. PTI PDS PM AH AM AM</p><p><i>(This story is published as part of the auto-generated syndicate wire feed. No editing has been done in the headline or the body by ABP Live.)</i></p>

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