Published Fri, Feb 05 10 05:10 PM
Dhaka, Feb 5 (PTI) Indian swimmers began their campaign at the 11th South Asian Games today with a splash, claiming four out of five gold medals on offer and in the process set three new meet records here today. Olympian Rehan Poncha earned India the first gold with a timing of 2:12.65s in the men''s 200m Individual Medley. Poncha was followed by Heshan Bandara Unamboowe (2:13.68s) of Sri Lanka while local lad Mohammad Rubel Rana took the bronze with a timing of 2:19.03s. Shubha Chittaranjan (women''s 50m butterfly), Sandeep Sejwal (men''s 200m breaststroke) and Aaron D''Souza (men''s 100m freestyle) emerged winners with record breaking performance. Shubha was ahead of her nearest rival Miniruwani Shashiprabha Samarakoon of Sri Lanka as she clocked 29.49s, eclipsing the previous record of 29.71. The Lankan recorded 32.12s for the silver and Pakistan''s Kiran Khan (32.18s) settled for the bronze medal. Making it a hat-trick of gold was Olympian Sandeep Sejwal (2:21.03s) who easily pipped local lad Mohammad Kamal Hossain (2:27.54) as he bagged the top honours with a new meet record in the 200m breaststroke. India also bagged a bronze in the same event through Anoop Augustine, who clocked 2:29.99s. More PTI TAP AT
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