Mumbai: Getting injured days before a state-level swimming competition might be a setback for someone, but not for Byculla’s 18-year-old Mohammed Moin Yusuf Chawdhary. He got injured in a road accident just a week before the state-level school swimming competition, but Moin did not back out. Regardless of injuries he participated with caps on his nose and won gold in 50m, 100m and 200m backstroke swimming at the state-level competition held in Pune.
Having gathered gold medalsat the state level, the Byculla boy is aiming to excel at the national games to be held next month in Delhi.And the gritty youngster is not ready to sit on the laurels gathered so far.
“My dream is to represent India at the Olympics and win gold there,” says the boy, who starts his day at 4.30 am with a training session at the pool and doubles down the efforts with a three-hour training session at 6 pm. His father Mohammed Yusuf Nuruddin Chawdhary runs a small mobile phone shop from a rented room near Byculla station.
Yusuf says he noticed Moin’s talent in swimming when he was nine and was enrolled in a swimming club at YMCA, Mumbai Central. “Since many children in the neighbourhood join swimming at this club, we too put him there so as to keep him away from getting addicted to games on mobile phones or joining bad company,” says Yusuf. But then Moin began excelling at swimming, earning medals at inter-school competitions. “We encouraged him to do better as he showed promise,” says Yusuf.
Moin’s coach, Manoj Palekar, says “Yeh ziddi ladka hai (The boy is adamant to succeed). He did not listen to the doctor and, despite having gotten injured in a road accident, he participated in the state-level championship. He has been performing excellently. What more can be said about him?”
Moin idolises Michael Fred Phelps II, the American former competitive swimmer who was the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with 28 medals to his name. “He is my hero. No swimmer and no Olympian has surpassed his records so far,” says Moin.
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Having gathered gold medalsat the state level, the Byculla boy is aiming to excel at the national games to be held next month in Delhi.And the gritty youngster is not ready to sit on the laurels gathered so far.
“My dream is to represent India at the Olympics and win gold there,” says the boy, who starts his day at 4.30 am with a training session at the pool and doubles down the efforts with a three-hour training session at 6 pm. His father Mohammed Yusuf Nuruddin Chawdhary runs a small mobile phone shop from a rented room near Byculla station.
Yusuf says he noticed Moin’s talent in swimming when he was nine and was enrolled in a swimming club at YMCA, Mumbai Central. “Since many children in the neighbourhood join swimming at this club, we too put him there so as to keep him away from getting addicted to games on mobile phones or joining bad company,” says Yusuf. But then Moin began excelling at swimming, earning medals at inter-school competitions. “We encouraged him to do better as he showed promise,” says Yusuf.
Moin’s coach, Manoj Palekar, says “Yeh ziddi ladka hai (The boy is adamant to succeed). He did not listen to the doctor and, despite having gotten injured in a road accident, he participated in the state-level championship. He has been performing excellently. What more can be said about him?”
Moin idolises Michael Fred Phelps II, the American former competitive swimmer who was the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with 28 medals to his name. “He is my hero. No swimmer and no Olympian has surpassed his records so far,” says Moin.
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On the occasion of the 161st anniversary of Mumbai’s Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Gardens and Zoo, the authorities announced the birth of three new penguins: Coco, Stella, and Jerry. The zoo now has a total of 18 penguins, with nine males and nine females. The breeding pairs Molt and Flipper welcomed Coco on April 27, 2023. Popeye and Olive hatched Stella on May 23, 2023. Jerry was hatched on June 27, 2023, by the breeding pair Donald and Daisy. The zoo also celebrated the birth of a female chick named Dora on February 21, 2023.
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KSVV Prasad, commissioner of customs (import), K R Sitalakshmi, dean – School of Architecture and Planning, Anna University, and Dinesh Victor, founder, SIP Academy India, inaugurated the 16th National Competition – Kolor Champ 23 in Chennai. More than 800 children from seven states, aged 5-15 years, participated and showcased their creativity through art. The event concluded with four children being declared as winners.
