India dominates SAF swimming

India's Richa Mishra ended the SAF Games with a rich haul of seven gold medals, including four in the individual events, as India swept all the 15 gold medals in women's swimming on the last day of the competition in Islamabad on Tuesday.

Richa, who had already won five gold medals today, was a runaway winner in the 100m butterfly, with about five seconds to spare over her second-placed compatriot Sivaranjani.

The other stars for India were Reshma Millet and Sumi Cyriac. While Reshma asserted her supremacy in the freestyle winning the 200m event to go with her 50m and 100m titles, Sumi added the 200m backstroke title to her 100m gold in backstroke. 

Overall, swimmers made India proud with a haul of 31 gold (men winning 17 gold medals), 11 silver and two bronze medals.

Results:

(Women)

100m butterfly: 1. Richa Mishra (Ind) 1:05.82 secs NGR (Old 1:07.09 Bula Choudhury India, Colombo 1991); 2.  Sivaranjani (Ind) 1:09.03 secs; 3.Sana Abdul Wahid (Pak) 1:12.85 secs.

200m Backstroke: 1. Sumi Cyriac (Ind) 2:33.54 secs; 2. Kiran Khan (Pak) 2:40.34secs  3.Hasanthi Liyanage (Sri) 2:48.01 secs.

200m freestyle: 1. Reshma Millet (ind) 2:15.68 secs; 2. Kiran Khan (Pak) 2:21.79secs; 3. Sana Abdul Wahid (Pak) 2:27.55 secs

200 Breaststroke: 1. Sivaranjani (Ind) 2:51.24 secs; 2. Bhavana Sharma (Ind) 2:53.70secs, 3. Doli Akhtar (Bang)  3:01.04 secs.

4 x 100m Free style: 1. India (Sivarajani, Parita Parekh, Richa mishra, reshma millet) 4:19.00; 2. Pakistan (Rubab Raza, Mahir Karim, Sana Abdul Wahid, Kiran Khan) 4:30.57 secs; 3. Sri Lanka (Menaka, Piumi Ekanayake, Prabha Madhvi, Chathuri abeyakoon) 4:33.50 secs.

Final medal tally in swimming: