Junaina sets 4 more records

Junaina Ahmed, an England-born Bangladeshi swimmer, continued to shine in the Saif PowerTec 32nd National Age-group Swimming Championships as she shattered four of the 10 national records on the second day at the Syed Nazrul Islam Swimming Complex in Mirpur yesterday.

Junaina set three records, 100m and 400m freestyles and 200m individual medley in girls' 15-17 age group, on the opening day and showed no signs of slowing down on the second day, setting records in four of the five events she took part for Gopalganj Swimming Club.

Yesterday, Junaina first grabbed the 100m backstroke gold without creating a record but after that she created records in the 400m individual medley, 200m freestyle, 200m butterfly and 50 freestyle, to finish with five gold for the day and raise her tally to eight gold medals.

However, all the records were recorded by hand timing. In other events, Mukti Khatun set a record in the 50m freestyle in Girls' 13-14 Age Group, Juthi Akter set a record in 200m freestyle in Girls' 11-12 Age Group, Abu Bakkar set a record in 200m backstroke in Boys' 18-20 Age Group and Nayan Ali set a record in the 200m butterfly in Boys' 15-17 Age Group.

A total of 70 events were completed in two days and 15 records were made. At the close of the second day, BKSP topped the table with 26 gold, 27 silver and 35 bronze medals followed by Bangladesh Ansar (21 gold, 13 silver and 13 bronze) and Golpalganj Swimming Club (8 gold).