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Good show by Indians

Chennai: Indian swimmers bagged three silver and four bronze medals on the opening day of the Asian Age-Group swimming championship being held in Bangkok.

Punjab's Puneet Rana, Veerdhayal Khade (Maharashtra) and Bangalore's Rohit Hawaldar have won silver medals, while Shikha Tandon, Rehan Poncha, Aaroon D'Souza (Bangalore) and Bengal's Mamoni Pondal were the bronze medal winners in diving, according to a fax message by Virendra Nanavati, Seceratary General, Swimming Federation of India.

In the boys' waterpolo events, the Indian team won both their round robin league matches beating Thailand 13-5 and Chinese Taipei 16-2.

Rana's medal came in the 50 metre breaststroke (open group) as he clocked 0.29.81 secs, Khade (in under-14) claimed the silver in the 100 metre free style with a timing of 0.55.23 secs while Hawaldar (15-17 age group) finished second in the 800 metre free style event with a timing of 8 min 42.67 sec. Shikha Tandon, who was expected to win the gold, faced stiff competition in her bronze medal (2 min 29.38 secs) effort in the 200 metre backstroke (open group), while Rehan Poncha finished third (4 min 09.13sec) in 400m freestyle.

In the 400m individual medley final, D'Souza timed 4min 56.87 for bronze, while Mondal was adjudged third in the one metre spring board diving final. — PTI

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