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Rohit Kumar sets meet record

NEW DELHI: Rohit Kumar of CRPF created a new meet record to win the 100m men’s breaststroke gold at the Open aquatic meet 2008 at the Punjabi Bagh Club here on Saturday. Rohit clocked 1:13.57 to eclipse the 21-year-old record of 1:14:05 set by fellow CRPF man S. Radhakrishnan.

International swimmer Richa Mishra bagged the women’s 100m breaststroke gold with a timing of 1:29.03s.

Among the boys, Mohit Kumar captured two gold in 100m butterfly and 100m breaststroke. Kavya Anand also won two gold medals in girls’ 50m butterfly and 50m breaststroke.

The winners: Men: Rohit Kumar (100m breaststroke).

Women: Richa Mishra (100m breaststroke).

Boys I: Mohit Kumar (100m butterfly), Arun Mittal (400m freestyle), Mohit Kumar (100m breaststroke).

II: Karan (400m freestyle), Sandeep Sharma (100m breaststroke), Gaurav Kohli (100m butterfly).

III: Devansh Kochar (200m freestyle), Jatin Thadani (100m breaststroke).

IV: Udit Gupta (50m breaststroke).

V: Akshay Rathi (50m breaststroke).

Girls I: Anushree Bhatt (200m freestyle).

II: Harpreet Kaur (200m freestyle), Tisha Chug (100m breaststroke).

III: Ruhab Khan (200m freestyle), Manisha Tokas (100m breaststroke).

IV: Kavya Anand (50m butterfly), Kavya Anand (50m breaststroke).

V: Sukriti Singhal (50m butterfly), Guraksh K. Bhagi (50m breaststroke). — Sports Reporter

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