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India reign on Day One

Mizan sets pool afire

Sports Reporter
Karar Mlzanur Rahman of Bang ladesh set the pattern on the inaugural day of Ilie South Asian
Swiumiing «hamptonship winning Ilie first gold in style at the Mirpur National Complex yesterday.
Mizan. wfto is unparallel in the 200-metre breaststroke in the region, look the gold in his favourite event with a record timing of two minutes 33.52 seconds eclipsing the previous mark by 06.73 seconds to earn tlie feat of selling the first of the five new games records featured on tlie opening day of the three-day meet.
Incidentally It was a hat-trick for the former BKSP student. who has monopolised this particular event winning it for the first lime at the Calcutta Games in 1992 before successfully defending the title in the SAF Games held In Dhaka In the following year.
Mizan. who is also expecting to win the gold in Ihe 400 breaststroke, however, made a fine start and never allowed his Indian rival Harinder Singh to have an edge, who had to be content with the silver clocking two minutes 38.39 sec-onds.
Rezaul Islam, another Bangladeshi swimmer in the event, took the bronze with a timing of two minutes 40.75 seconds.
Meanwhile, the eternal favourites India, who suffered quite a jolt. had to satisfied with three golds while Pakistan took the other gold decided on the day
BSS adds: Suresh Kumar of India earned the gold in 100m butterfly with a record time of 59.32 seconds against the previous lime of one minute 01.23 seconds. Pakistan’s Kamal Salman Masud and Bangladesh’s Selim Mia bagged the silver and bronze medals with one minute 0.74 and one minute 1)1 79 seconds respectively.
India's Bhanu Sachdeva collected his country’s second gold with also a record lime of two minutes 16.57 seconds in 200m backstroke. The previous timing in the event was two minutes 17.19 seconds.
The silver and bronze medals went to Bangladesh when Naemul Kabcr and Kawsdr Ahmed finished the distance in two minutes 23.82 seconds and two minutes 24.01 seconds respectively.
India won their last gold of the- day in the 4X100m freestyle relay as their quartet completed the event in record time of three minutes 45.78 seconds. The previous record in the event was three minutes 47.40 secs. Pakistan and Bangladesh got the silver and bronze medals.
Pakistan’s Kamal Salman Masud won the country's only gold in 200m freestyle clocking two minutes 0.62 seconds. India got the silver and bronze
medals when Abhijit and Sebastian Xavier finished the distance with a time of two minutes 0 80 seconds and two mMutes 6 23 seconds respectively
Indian coach Kashinat Roy said. "We won three golds today and we hope the rest of the golds will go to India."
Earlier. Food Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan Inaugurated the meet as the chief guest.
Secretary general of South Asian Swimming Federation Latif Butt witnessed the events.
Ail the South Asian coun tries except Bhutan are taking part in the meet. Sri Lanka, who is also a major force in South Asian swimming, did not send their natants to the meet. They are taking part in the two diving events only
MED AI-STABLE
Medals table al the end of the opening day (tabulated as countries, gold, silver and bronze)
India 3 2 I
Pakistan I 2 0
Bangladesh I I 4