Asian Aquatics Championships 2025, Indian divers secure historic medal.

Indian divers Indiver Sairam and Willson Sing Ningthoujam won bronze in the men’s 10m synchronised event on Monday, marking the country’s first-ever podium finish in diving at the Asian Aquatics Championships.

The 18-year-old Sairam and 32-year-old Ningthoujam, both from Manipur, scored 300.66 points, finishing behind China’s Zhangyu Cui and Zhanhong Xu (381.75) and Malaysia’s Bertrand Rhodict Lises and Enrique M. Harold (329.73).

“Over the last six months, we’ve really focused on synchronised events, both platform and 3m springboard,” said coach Shannon Roy from Australia. “We spent time in camps overseas, including Malaysia, and at the World Championships in Singapore, preparing them for this meet and the long-term goal of the Asian Games.”

Swimmers from 29 countries are competing at the 11th edition of the Asian Aquatic Championships.

India’s tally currently stands at seven medals – three silvers and four bronze – at the Asian Aquatic Championships 2025.

Venues: Veer Savarkar Sports Complex, Naranpura, Ahmedabad.

Aquatic sports are activities that take place in or on water, including competitive disciplines like swimming, diving, water polo, and artistic swimming, as well as a wide range of other water-based recreations like water skiing, boating, and surfing. These sports test skills ranging from speed and endurance to grace and teamwork, providing a full-body workout. 

Competitive Aquatic Sports 

    • Swimming: A competitive sport of speed that includes various strokes (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) and distances, often contested in a pool or open water.
    • Diving: Involves acrobatic dives from a platform or springboard into the water, with events for individual and synchronized dives.
    • Water Polo: A team sport where two teams compete to score goals by throwing a ball into the opposing team’s net.
    • Artistic Swimming: A synchronized swimming discipline that combines swimming, dance, and gymnastics in routines performed to music.
  • Open Water Swimming: Endurance swimming events held in lakes, rivers, or the sea. 

Other Aquatic Activities

  • Boating: Sports involving human-powered or motorized boats, such as canoeing, kayaking, and rowing.
  • Water Skiing: A sport where a person is pulled behind a boat on skis, while standing on the water.
  • Surfing: Riding on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore.
  • Snorkeling: The practice of swimming while looking through a mask and breathing through a tube.
  • Diving: Includes activities like scuba diving, freediving, and spearfishing. 
This video explains the benefits of swimming for your body:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMliGnl7uVo&t=33s

Benefits of Aquatic Sports

  • Full-body workout: Provides an all-around exercise that engages many different muscle groups.
  • Low impact: Gentle on joints and a good way to prevent injuries compared to some land-based sports.
  • Therapeutic: Can be used for physical therapy and rehabilitation.
  • Stress relief: Helps lower blood pressure and relieve stress.