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: Sunday, June 27, 2021, 12:50 PM IST Nation is proud of you : Sajan Prakash becomes first Indian swimmer to achieve A qualifying standard; netizens cheer on Photo: Twitter/@swim sajan Sajan Prakash on Saturday entered his name in Indian swimming record books by winning an automatic berth for the Tokyo Olympic Games in the men s 200 metres butterfly event here. Prakash clocked 1 minutes 56.38 seconds in the Sette Colli swimming competition. This timing was better than the Olympics A qualification time of 1:56.48 secs. He is the first ever Indian swimmer to have achieved A qualifying standard in the history of Indian swimming. I have worked very hard for this, and I was confident with the way I had trained. This was my last chance, and I knew I had to do it here. I had come so close to the qualifying mark in the previous meets. My coach Pradeep Kumar sir, and I planned my tapering in such a way that I would peak at these two events in Serbia and Rom ....