Nothing brings more joy to parents than to see their kids achieve their dreams and R Madhavan was a proud father after his son's recent incredible achievement.

Actor R Madhavan's son Vedaant has won silver for India in swimming at the Asian Age Group Swimming Championship.

The 14-year-old clinched a silver medal for 4X100m freestyle relay.

On Thursday, the 49-year-old actor shared an image of Vedaant standing on stage, next to his teammates after coming second in the 4x100m freestyle relay for group II boys.

“India gets her Silver medal at the Asian Games. Gods grace .. Vedaants first official medal representing India,” wrote the proud father.

Vedaant, along with other participants Utkarsh Patil, Sahil Laskar and Shoan Ganguly, won a silver medal in the category while Thailand scored the gold medal and Japan won bronze in the third spot,reports NDTV.

The team featuring Vedaant Madhavan (55.27), Utkarsh Patil (57.10), Sahil Laskar (54.83) and Shoan Ganguly (54.29) clocked a total time of 3:41.49 seconds.

They finished behind Japan who won the gold with a time of 3:34.60 seconds which was a New Meet Record (NMR). The previous record of 3:39.03 seconds was also held by Japan. The bronze medal was won by Chinese Taipei who clocked 3:42.29 seconds.

A dominant Indian team clinched gold in the 4X100 metres men's freestyle relay on the opening day of the Asian Age Group Championships after emerging almost five seconds faster than nearest rival Iran, here on Tuesday, reports PTI.



The Indian quartet, comprising Srihari Nataraj, Anand Anilkumar, Sajan Prakash and Virdhawal Khade clocked 3:23.72 seconds, almost five seconds faster than the Iran team which timed 3:28.46.

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"It was important that the team got off to a good start and I was entrusted by the team and the coaches with that responsibility. Being the second fastest in the team, I couldn't let my team down. It was a great effort from all of us and it feels good to win India's first gold at the Championships," said Srihari, who will compete in the 50m backstroke final in the evening session.



