NAGPUR’S Shashruti Nakade clinched agold medal in the Mini Orange ITF Nationals Para Triathl on that was held at Shri Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune on Independence Day. The event was hosted by the Indian Triathlon Federation. Shashruti emerged winner in the endurance event competing in national meet where 83 paraathletes from all over India participated in different categories. In the Pune triathlon, that served as selection trialsfor international meet, the participants had to compete in three events —250m swimming, 9.3km cycling and 2.4 km running. Shashruti took the top podium spot with acombined timing of 46.58 minutes.

 

“The performance took her world rankings tonumber eight and that made her eligible for the World Triathlon Championships to be held at Pontevedra, Spain. The weeklong major event runs from September23-27,”informed her father Vinayak. “Shashruti has won about 50 medals in national swimming events and had also emerged champion in the first two nationals paratriathlons that were conducted in 2021 and 2024. This triumph makes it a hat-trick of golds in the national meet. Shetrains in all the three discipline sunder Prashant Karmakar at Bhiwani in Haryana,” he added.