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Indians sweep swimming gold medals at SAG

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Press Trust of India Guwahati
Indian swimmers picked up all the seven gold medals on offer to complete the most productive and dominating day so far in the 12th South Asian Games here today.

In the last three days, Sri Lanka had been giving competition to the home country but today it was the Indians who ruled the roost at the Dr Zakir Hussain Aquatics Complex here.

Saurabh Sangvekar started the gold-winning streak for India, setting a new Games record of 3:58.84 seconds to win the 400m freestyle for men. V Malvika secured the gold in 400m freestyle for women, setting a new meet record of 4:30.08 minutes.
 

Sajan Prakash then bagged India's third gold of the day and his fourth of the Games, by winning the 200m butterfly for men with a new record time of 2:03.02.

This was followed by Damini Gowda winning the gold for India in 200m butterfly in yet another Games record time of 2:21.12 and PS Madhu in 50m backstroke for men, setting a new record of 26.86 seconds.

The gold in 50m backstroke for women was clinched by Kimiko Raheem of Sri Lanka, setting a new record of 29.75 seconds.

Indians also won the gold in 4x200m freestyle for both men and women.

Silver winners for India today were Sajan Prakash (400m freestyle for men), Shivani Kataria (400m freestyle for women), M Arvind (50m backstroke for men) and Maana Patel (50m backstroke for women).

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First Published: Feb 09 2016 | 6:32 PM IST

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