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Girls set pool afire

Sports Reporter
Records were rewritten In seven of the eight events In the women's swimming competition as
i-ompcnuon as the hoi favourites Ansars collected I I medals Including four golds on the second day of Ihe fifth Bangladesh Games at the Dhanmondi Women s Sports Complex yesterday.
The female natants of BTMC also bagged four gold. but had lo be content with the second slot In the medal's table as their tally showed a lowly six at
Defying the elemental chill of late December BTMC's Monira Rahman emerged as the star of the - first day pocketing three golds —in the 5Om breast-stroke. 2OOm butter-fly and 200m frce-stylc.
The day's first cvcnt-4OOm freestyle saw no upheaval as Rehana Zaman of the Ansars clocked 6:05.47 secs to pick -up the gold.
China Akhtar. Rehana's teammate, finished second with a timing of 6:37.19 secs.
The record-breaking spree started with the 50m freestyle — the day's second event Monira Rahman of BTMC erased Rehana Zaman’s 33.10 secs mark achieved in 1991 with a new timing of 32.21 sec.
Zarina Akhtar of Ansars notched the silver finishing second In 36.50 seconds
Veteran Mahmuda Sharif of
Ansars went one better in the 200m breast-stroke, shatter fng her previous record of 3:23.45 seconds, created In 1991.
Mahmuda clocked 3:23.12 wonds yesterday
Sufia Akhtar of Ansars sc cured the second slot taking 3:29.53 seconds. Dilruba Akhtar of Jessore district picked up the bronze consuming 3:45.58 seconds.
Rehana Zaman of Ansars, who won two golds yesterday, opened her account by winning the gold tn the 4OOm individual medley. Her 6:59.50 seconds timing — a new record — eclipsed Sitara Begum's timing of 7:58.40 seconds achieved way back in 1981.
Monira Begum timed 3:27 48 seconds In the 200m butter-fly rubbing off an eleven-year record, held till yesterday by Sitara Begum. Monira erased Si tarns feat 3:53.40 secs, achieved way back In 1979 for Dhaka Education Board.
Putul Rani Ghosh of Ansars settled,for the second position with > timing of 3:50.54 seconds.
RaibarTs Mita Rani Some was the bronze winner, clocking 3:59.90 seconds.
A gold medal and a new record belonged to Mahfuza Rahman of BTMC In the 100m back-stroke event. Mahfuza who finished first in the supine mode of swimming, took 1:24.85 seconds, almost
1:24.85 seconds, almost five seconds less than Reshma Parveens timing of 1:32.17 seconds attained earlier this year.
Monira surged ahead of Rehana Zaman as Ihe highest Individual medal collector of Day One when she look the 2OOm freestyle gold. The BTMC swimmer look 2:44.91 sec lo obscure the previous record of 2:45.03 sec set by I.atla Noor of BTMC way back in 1991.
The Ansars quartet of Zarina. Rina. China and Itehana Zaman lifted the gold in the 4X100m free-style relay clocking 5:18.66 seconds.
Their timing erased the previous second of 6:21.22, also held by Ansars swimmers — Sitara. Mahmuda Sharif. Sulckhn and Rehana In 1987
The BTMC team, comprising Mahfuza. Shab-c-Noor l^lana, Shamsun Nahar and Monira Rahman, took the silver while the Narayanganj quartet of Tania. Hasina. Shchcr and Hosna managed ihe bronze.
Forty-one female swimmers representing seven teams arc pnrtk-lpntlnc In the Bangladesh Games
MEDALSTABLE
G s B T Ansars 4 7 0 11
BTMC 4 116
Jessore 0 0 2 2
Rajbori 0 0 2 2
Narayanganj 0 0 2 2
Munshignnj 0 0 0 1