Two Reforms, One Blueprint: How SFI’s Age Bands and Talent Pool Standards Quietly Line Up
When the Swimming Federation of India restructured national championship age groups in May — clean two-year bands, 11–12 and 13–14 at sub-junior, 15–16 and 17–18 at junior — it was framed, correctly, as competition reform. Cleaner brackets, fairer racing, and a structure that finally maps onto World Aquatics’ 14–18 Junior World Championships window. What wasn’t […]
The Numbers Chase Begins: SFI Sets Qualifying Times for Bhubaneswar Junior Nationals
Indian swimming’s junior pipeline has been the quiet engine behind the sport’s recent gains — a steady supply of teenagers cutting their teeth at national level before graduating to senior competition, continental meets, and in a growing number of cases, the Olympic qualifying conversation itself. The Junior National Aquatic Championships is where that pipeline gets […]
SFI Holds Athlete Commission Elections at Ahmedabad Nationals — Sajan Prakash Among Nine Nominees
The Swimming Federation of India is conducting Athlete Commission elections at the 79th Senior Nationals in Ahmedabad. Nine swimmers including double Olympian Sajan Prakash and national record holder Chahat Arora have filed valid nominations.