Sumi is the only talent in India to set a unique record of

22 gold with 8 new records in the

All India University Aquatics Championships.

• Gold medal in SAF Games, Nepal, 1999
• 3 gold medals in SAF Games, Islamabad, 2004, with 3 SAF records
• 3 Bronze medals in Asian Swimming Championships, China 2002
• 3 times National Champion in 1997, 1999, 2002
• Total of 65 National & International medals.
• All India Inter University Individual Champion consecutively for 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 & 2000

International Swimmer Sumi Cyriac Academy

There was a time when Sumi Cyriac was hailed as India’s Golden Girl in the pool. She won a gold medal at the 1999 South Asian Federation (SAF) Games in Nepal, and two more at the 2004 SAF Games in Islamabad, Pakistan. All three titles were won in SAF record times. However, the swimmer, who still holds the unique record of capturing 22 gold medals (eight of them in record times) at the All India Inter University Aquatics Championships, seems to have completely vanished from the public sphere.

Take a turn at the city’s famous Saint Berchmans High School and you enter a road that is hardly wide enough to accommodate a single car at a time. Travel through that road for around a kilometre and you reach the gates of a barely week-old establishment – International Swimmer Sumi Cyriac Academy. Once a queen of the pool, Sumi