Ahmedabad, Sept. 28 -- Twenty-four-year-old Srihari Nataraj opened India's medal tally at the 11th Asian Aquatics Championships on Sunday at the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex in Ahmedabad by clinching a Silver medal in the 200m freestyle and 50m backstroke for men.

Natraj clocked an impressive 1:48.47 seconds in 200m freestyle, finishing behind China's Haibo XU who clocked 1:46.83 to bag the gold and in 50m backstroke he clocked 25.46 seconds to win another Silver. China's Gukailai Wang bagged the Gold with a time of 25.11 seconds, as per a press release from the Swimming Federation of India (SFI).

Now focusing on middle-distance events apart from his pet events, that is 50m and 100m backstroke, Srihari got off to a strong start in the 2...