Chennai: Jai Aswani (18), a first year student of Hindustan College in Chennai, recently took part in Milind Soman’s Mission Fit India and was its youngest runner.
According to a press release, Aswani covered 135 kilometres running from Gauhati (Assam) to Cherrapunji (Meghalaya) on 30 and 31 December 2020.
The run, organised by actor Milind Soman, who is the co-founder of Pinkathon, saw participants from Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and more.
As for Aswani, he was sponsored by MNR Enterprises (Land Developers) and Young Champions (Sports Academy Chennai), and was the Face of Tamilnadu Marathon 2017.
Being a Pinkathon ambassador, he had completed the Spirit of Pinkathon 2018 by covering from Pondicherry to Chennai, a distance of about 150 kilometres in three days.
He had also been awarded with young achiever, youth icon and was conferred with a ‘crest’ from the Indian Coast Guard for his various contributions to the society.