Dr Jaiprakash Duble

Dr Jaiprakash Duble is an open water swimming coach from India.

Coaching Highlights

He is the Director of the National Institute of Swimming.
He is the President of the JD Sports Foundation.
He is the former Joint Director, Sports & Youth Services, Government of Maharashtra, India.
He coaches his son Jayant Jaiprakash Duble of the Dolphin Swimming Club, Nagpur.
He started the Open Water Swimming Coaching Centre at Arabian Sea, Juhu Beach, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India with the support of Home (Ports & Transport) Department, Government of Maharashtra where he conducts 3-day coaching camps.
He completed a 1-year Coaching Diploma from the Institute of Government of India (NSNIS).
He has coached swimmers who have swam across the English Channel, Strait of Gibraltar, Palk Strait, International Self-Transcendence Marathon Swim in Lake Zurich, Switzerland.

Duble finished 7th in the 81 km India National Open Water Swimming Competition in River Bhagirathi in 12 hours 29 minutes.
Duble completed the 36 km All India Swimming Marathon.
Duble completed a 24 km crossing between Chapora Fort to Aguada Fort in the Arabian Sea 4 hours 50 minutes on 4 February 2021 at the age of 18. The Adventure Sea Swimming Expedition at Goa under FIT India Movement was organized by the JD Sports Youth Foundation and observed by the Goa Swimming Association, a division of Swimming Federation of India.
Duble completed an unprecedented 27 km crossing from Zuari Bridge to Mandovi Bridge in the Arabian Sea in Goa, India in February 2021 in 7 hours 9 minutes at the age of 18. JD Sports Youth Foundation, Nagpur, India organized the crossing.
Duble completed a 29 km crossing of the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India in 9 hours 20 minutes on 26 March 2021.

He was nominated for the 2021 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year Award by the World Open Water Swimming Association. The winners and nominees include:

Winner: Paul Georgescu (Romania)
First Runner-up: Neil Agius (Malta)
Second Runner-up: Joel Matos Ortiz (Puerto Rico)
4. Josef Köberl (Austria)
5. Dr. Jaiprakash Duble (India)
6. Pablo Fernández Álvarez (Spain)
7. Stève “Seal” Stievenart (France)
8. Simon Griffiths (Great Britain)
9. Bogusław Ogrodnik (Poland)
10. Joseph Zemaitis (USA)
11. Damián Blaum (Argentina)
12. Florian Wellbrock (Germany)
13. Stéphane Lecat (France)
14. Kristóf Rasovszky (Hungary)
15. Andre Slade (Australia)