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Salil, Tultul sizzle

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Salil Biswas (West Bengal) and Tultul Sinha (West Bengal) hogged the limelight on the opening day of the 6th BSNL all-India aquatic meet at the Water Works Swimming pool here on Wednesday.

Both Salil Biswas and Tultul Sinha won a treble each in the men’s and women’s section respectively. Krishna Pillai won a double to bring some cheer to the Kerala camp.

The results: Men: 100m freestyle: 1. Krishna Pillai (Ker), 2. Salil Biswas (WB), 3. S.D.Sharma (MP); 1500m freestyle: 1. Krishna Pillai (Ker), 2. Salil Biswas (WB), 3. Kirit Kumar R. Madh (Guj); 100m butterfly: 1. Salil Biswas (WB), 2. Kirit Kumar R. Madh (Guj), 3. Surajit Sarkar (WB); 200m breaststroke: 1. Himadri Sekharpal (WB), 2. M.Vishweshwar Rao (AP), 3. Kirit Kumar R.Madh (Guj); 100m backstroke: 1. Salil Biswas (WB), 2. Sunil Kumar (Ker), 3 Kirit Kumar R.Madh (Guj); 400m IM: 1. Salil Biswas (WB), 2. Krishna Pillai (Ker), 3. Kirit Kumar R. Madh (Guj).

Women: 100m freestyle: 1. Tultul Sinha (WB), 2. Rekha Thakur (WB), 3. Usha Goutam (Del); 200m freestyle: 1. Tultul Sinha (WB), 2. Rekha Thakur (WB), 3. Shama D.Pawan (MTNL, Mumbai); 100m backstroke: 1. Tultul Sinha (WB), 2. Usha Gautam (NTR, Delhi), 3. Uma Kanti Anya (UP East).

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