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Rajshahi Board rule the pool
Rajshahi Education Board swimmers ruled the roost on the opening day of the national age
group meet for boy* yesterday, bagging 17 of the 33 medals at stake — seven of them of the glittering kind — at the Dhaka Stadium pool. For Icing on the cake. their swimmers patented two of the three new record* that were created on the day
So pervasive was the Rajshahi Board domination that at least one of them featured in the bat of medallists in all the eleven events decided so far Their lead at the top of the table with seven Colds, four silvers and six ronzes looks likely to survive the effort* by the other 21 participating teams In the remaining two day* of the champl onshlp*. being held under the aegl* of the Bangladesh Swimming Federation
Salful Islam set the tone for Rajshahi Board's medal hunt by rewriting the first record, in the 200m breaststroke for boy* between 13 and 14 year* of age. His time of 3 mtn* 05.54 secs was a significant improvement upon the 3:06.24 secs clocked by Bangladesh Textile Mills Corporation (BTMC) swimmer Hossai-nuzzaman Sentu way back tn 1981.
Ramzan All of Kushtia took the silver with Saifs teammate Nlaz Ali taking the bronze.
The second record breaking effort of the day came from Comilla DSAs M. Omar Faruque tn the 200m back-stroke for boys between 15-17 years.
Omar Faruque’s time of 2 mlns 41.78 seconds eclipsed another ten-year old mark of 2:45.60, set by Hasanuzzaman Pin too. also of BTMC.
Siddlqur Rahman of Madaripur came in second for the silver while M Shahin Hossain of Rajshahi Board — who won two golds and a silver — got the bronze.
Shahin Hoaaain proved the most prolific- swimmer for Rajshahi Board yesterday, winning two gold medal* — in the 100m and 200m freestyle* and a silver in the 400m indl vidua I medley
record
The day s other new record came tn the 50m freestyle event of the 11-12 year group with Abdullah Al-Muktadir of Rajshahi Board clocking 32.28 ■ecs. .02 seconds better than his teammate Mohammad Mosharraf s time of 32.30 secs set last year.
The silver medal tn this race went to Md. Awwal of Madaripur DSA while Md Rafiqul Islam, yet another Rajshahi Board fellow, took the
Md Sharif Ali of Rajshahi Board won the day s first gold medal in the 100m breaststroke for 11-12 year-olds with a time of 1:35.85 secs, ahead of teammate Md Rafiqul Islam and bronze medallist Md Awwal of Madaripur.
Pabna DSA. who finished a distant second behind Rajshahi Board on the day with two medals of each kind, owed their position to Md. Abdul Hamid who won both the 100 and 200m freestyle events for boys between 13 and 14 years.
Hamid clocked 2 min 30.31 seconds for the 200m while in
the lOOm version of the race hi* time was 1:07.36 sees
Abu Bakr Halder of Rajshahi Board won the 2OOm freestyle silver and Pabna s Md Alamglr Hossain the bronze, white tn the 100m Abu Bakr Haider again finished just behind Hamid for the silver white his teammate Md Masud Rana claimed the bronze
Comilla DSA. too. awad both their geld medals on the day to one individual - Md Omar Faruque. This 16-year-old showed great versatility by winning the 200m backstroke — in which event he set new record — and the 400m Individual medley for boys between IS and 17 year*.
Omar Faruque * time far the 400m IM gold was 5 mln 40.73 secs, ahead of Rajshahi Board* prodigy Shahin Hossain whose 6:01.10 secs fetched him the silver and Pabna * Saldul Islam * 6:06.16 sees for the bronze.
Md Loeb All of Rajshahi Board won the 50m breaststroke for 10-year-old* In 44.74 secs. Kushtla teammates Md. Munlrul Islam and Md Rafiqul Islam settled for the silver and bronze respectively.
A total of 215 swimmers representing 22 team* are competing in thia year’s championships with only six teams managing to make the medals table by the end of Day One.
Nurul Hossain Khan. Chairman. National Board of Revenue, formally inaugurated the meet fn the morning.
Competition resumes at 9:00 am with the heats in the morning session followed by the finals in the afternoon session starting at 2:30 pm.