Commonwealth Games: Indian swimmers Dhakshan Shashikumar, Aryan Nehra fail to reach 400m freestyle final

Indian swimmers Dhakshan Shashikumar and Aryan Nehra failed to advance to the men's 400m freestyle final at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday. Shashikumar finished 15th with a time of 3:58.09s, while Nehra finished 16th overall, clocking 4:00.26s

Glasgow: Indian swimmers endured a disappointing outing at the Commonwealth Games here on Saturday as both Dhakshan Shashikumar (3:58.09s) and Aryan Nehra (4:00.26s) failed to qualify for the final of the 400m freestyle event.

Shashikumar (3:58.09s) and Nehra (4:00.26s) finished 15th and 16th respectively amongst the 27 swimmers in the 400m freestyle heats at the Tollcross Swimming Centre.

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Shashikumar had moved into seventh position at the halfway stage, but could not do enough to clear his heat. In heat 4, Nehra was placed last at the halfway stage, and ended in the same position.

Dhakshan Shashikumar was in heat 3.