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Nisarga Batika School has won the overall title at the 14th NSA Cup Swimming Championship after collecting 1,363 points at the two day meet in Satdobato. The Rising Nepal and OnlineKhabar reported the result on Wednesday, October 14. Armed Police Force finished second with 613 points, while Jagat Mandir Higher Secondary School placed third with 606. The size of Nisarga’s margin made the team competition clear, but the meet also produced a broad set of individual performances across school and departmental clubs.
Duana Lama of Nepal Army Club was named the best woman swimmer after winning seven gold medals. Ervin Shrestha of Nepal Police Club received the men’s award with four gold and two silver medals. Those honours recognise their complete meet results rather than a single race. The championship brought together 151 swimmers representing 36 teams, giving the national selection event a field that extended well beyond the three leading organisations in the final team standings.
The Nepal Swimming Association said 17 national records were broken during the competition. Ervin Shrestha accounted for six of them, Abir Pradhan set four and Jaden Shrestha established three. Duana Lama, Kalkin Shrestha, Atharva Singh and Aaron Bhandari each added one. Those individual counts add up to the reported total of 17. The reports do not list every event, time or previous mark, so the record tally should not be expanded into unsupported race by race claims.
The meet was held at the Satdobato Swimming Pool and doubled as a national selection trial for the World Aquatics Swimming Championships in Beijing. A selection trial creates evidence for selectors, but it is not the same as publication of a final national team. The cited reports do not name Nepal’s confirmed Beijing squad or specify qualification standards met by each swimmer. Any later team announcement should therefore be treated as a separate development rather than inferred from medals or records at the NSA Cup.
World Aquatics’ published competition schedule places the 25 metre championships at Beijing’s National Aquatics Center from December 1 to 6, 2026. The short course format uses a 25 metre pool, which is the context for the December event and the selection purpose described by the Nepal reports. The official schedule includes individual and relay races across six days. Nepal’s eventual entries, travel arrangements and event assignments were not included in the October 14 result coverage.
The 17 record performances are the clearest indicator of the meet’s sporting value. Records provide measurable evidence that athletes improved on previously recognised national standards, while the 151 swimmer field shows depth in participation. Analysis of the result suggests that the competition served two connected goals: identifying swimmers for international consideration and giving clubs and schools a national benchmark. It does not by itself show how Nepali times compare with championship qualification marks or international finalists.
For Nepal sports audiences, the safe takeaway is a strong domestic championship result: Nisarga Batika won the team title, Lama and Shrestha earned the leading individual awards, and athletes produced 17 national records. The performances offer a positive support focused story before the December short course world championships. Attention should now move to the Nepal Swimming Association’s formal selection announcement. Until that happens, celebrating the records and the breadth of participation is more accurate than presenting any swimmer as a confirmed member of the Beijing team.
Source publication date: 2026-10-14. Event or reporting period: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13.
Sources:The Rising Nepal · OnlineKhabar · World Aquatics
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