Hall Of Fame

 See the Honour Roll of swimmers from IIT Bombay Swimming Club who have made us proud.

 Many people have contributed to the glory of the swim club. Here are some of our stars.

Campusites

Pankaja Date

In Nov 2005 Pankaja participated in Ashwamedh : IX Maharashtra State Inter University Sports Meet at the Marathwada Agricultural University, Parbhani, Maharashtra, representing SNDT University. She was the sole swimmer amongst the total number of athletes representing the University in various games. She won bronze in 100m backstroke and silver in 50m freestyle.Pankaja was specially honored a the 2006 Republic Day Parade where the SNDT Vice Chancellor Dr Rupa Shah took the salute and honored her with a plaque, for outstanding achievment in sports for SNDT University. She also came 3rd in 50m freestyle in college girls category in the IIT Open State Level Swimming Gala in 2006 and in 2007, she stood second in 50m freestyle, third in 100m freestyle and 100m backstroke.Academic and other commitments did not allow Pankaja to participate recently in the Swimmathon, Triathlon, a nd Sea races, something she has done regularly before the year 2000.

Pratima Satish

Accomplished in swimming and academics, Pratima Satish has just completed her Std. XII examination in which she stood first in school with a percentage of 96.2. Her swimming career has been equally impressive, with her yearly haul of medals in various competitive events.Right from 2003, where she stood first in 200m breast stroke,second in 100m butterfly and 3rd in 400m Freestly in KVS National Meet at Delhi to the KVS National Meet in Hyderabad in 2008, where she stood first in all her individual events. Pratima has secured admission and 95% scholarship to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York State, USA.

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Siddharth Rao Deb

His list of achievements include:
The Bombay YMCA 30th Annual Inter-School/Jr. College Swimming Championship 2007 - 50 M Breast stroke: Gold.
CCI Swimming Gala 2007 - 200 yards Individual Medley: Bronze.
The Club, Andheri (2007) - 100 M Freestyle/Back stroke: Silver,100 M Back/Free: Silver, 100 M Butterfly/Breast stroke: Gold (NMR).
Kendra Vidyalaya Regional Meet 2007, Pune - 100 M Breast stroke: Gold, 50 M Back stroke: Gold, 50 M Back Stroke: Silver.
Matunga Gymkhana 2007 - 50 M Breast stroke: Bronze.
Maharashtra State Amateur Aquatic Association 2007 - 50 M Breast stroke: Bronze, 200 M Freestyle relay: Gold,200 M Individual Medley relay: Gold.
Greater Mumbai Amateur Aquatic Association,2007 - 50 M Breast stroke: Gold,50 M Back stroke: Bronze
 

IIT Students

 Milind Koppikare

A student of Electrical Engineering at IIT, he's been a swimmer since he was 8.He came second in the 5 km sea-race when he was 10 and was 10th in the 5 km World Open Water Meet at Perth in Jan 1997.In 1998, Milind got a silver at the Maharashtra State Aquatic Championships and followed that up with a bunch of medals at the Inter Varsity games.On April 8th, 1999, Milind Koppikare was awarded the Chhatrapati award by the Government of Maharashtra At the Convocation 1999, Milind graduated in Electrical Engineering, and was awarded the President S. D. Sharma Award.

 Rahul Kopikar

A student of Electrical Engineering at IIT, his main strokes are freestyle and butterfly. Between his brother Milind and him, they hauled in all the gold at the Inter IIT Aquatics. A sea-racer, he won the 6km Sunk Rock to Gateway of India Annual Sea Race in 1998 and 1999. He participated at the Maharashtra State Under-20 Water Polo meet, pushed his team to a bronze medal, and was selected to be a member of the Maharashtra State water polo team, for the Nationals 1998.

Sarwesh Paradkar

His performances have been phenomenal to the point of being a real inspiration and pride to the rest of the swimming community at IIT Bombay. His biggest achievement in swimming happened when he stood 8th in India in the 50m backstroke in the 62nd Senior Swimming Nationals organized by Swimming Federation of India (FINA affiliated event) where Olympic swimmers from India also participated!A few of his other recent achievements include representing IIT Bombay in GMAAA Open District Swimming Meet held at the Goregaon Sports Club. He won a gold medal in 50 m backstroke with the timing of 30.42 s narrowly missing the old record of 30.36 s. His 50m back stroke timing was equivalent to the last year All India Inter University gold medal timing. He had also won a gold medal in 100m butterfly stroke, silver in 100m back stroke & bronze medal in 50m butterfly stroke. Seeing his exemplary timing in the 50m backstroke, MSAAA awarded him direct selection for the Senior Nationals.

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Akhil Ravi

Hrishikesh Kelkar

Michael Marszalek

Harshwardhan Agashe