While the state swimming body has set a time of 4 hours 21 minutes to cover that distance, Jiya reportedly swam it in 3 hours 27 minutes and 30 seconds.

This was Arora’s second medal of the week in the Nepal capital. On Friday, Arora had won a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke event with a timing of one minute and 13.4 seconds.

She dreamt of being a disruptor and she succeeded. An engineer by training, an entrepreneur by gut and profession, meet Shantala Bhat. She was born and brought up in Siddapur, Karwar District in Karnataka. She studied in a government school and was the only girl to opt to become an engineer in her entire batch […]