India swimmers win five medals

Poncha was followed by Heshan Bandara Unamboowe 2:13.68s of Sri Lanka while local lad Mohammad Rubel Rana took the bronze with a timing of 2:19.03s.

Shubha Chittaranjan womens 50m butterfly,Sandeep Sejwal mens 200m breaststroke and Aaron DSouza mens 100m freestyle emerged winners with record breaking performance.

Shubha was ahead of her nearest rival Miniruwani Shashiprabha Samarakoon of Sri Lanka as she clocked 29.49s,eclipsing the previous record of 29.71.

The Lankan recorded 32.12s for the silver and Pakistans Kiran Khan 32.18s settled for the bronze medal.

Making it a hat-trick of gold was Olympian Sandeep Sejwal 2:21.03s who easily pipped local lad Mohammad Kamal Hossain 2:27.54 as he bagged the top honours with a new meet record in the 200m breaststroke.

India also bagged a bronze in the same event through Anoop Augustine,who clocked 2:29.99s.