Actor R Madhavan shared a video of his son Vedaant at Junior National Aquatics on social media.

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Madhavan is a proud father as his son broke the national junior record in swimming.

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Vedaant Madhavan won the 1500 m freestyle at the 48th National Aquatic Championships.

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The actor’s son bagged the gold medal.

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R Madhavan shared his son’s video on Twitter and captioned it as ‘Never Say Never, National Junior Record for 1500m freestyle broken’.

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The video features Vedaant swimming and a commentator saying, ‘16 minutes, he has broken Advait Page’s record at the 780m mark.’

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Vedaant broke the previous holder’s record of 16 minutes and established a new milestone at the nationals.

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In April, this year, Vedaant also won the gold medal in the men’s 800m freestyle at the Danish Open in Copenhagen.

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The winning streak continued and he won another gold medal at National level.

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Wishing the talented swimmer all the best on the win.

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