KARACHI, Nov 9: Six records were eclipsed as swimmers from the Habib Public School took a flying start in the two-day 47th Sindh Swimming Championship when they amassed 172 points on the opening day at their own pool on Friday.

The Habibians are closely followed by water-oriented swimmers from the Naval Club with 60 points while Karachi Club is lying third with a tally of 47 points.

As many as 37 events were held in different age categories and Open contest.

Results:

Group VII (Open):

100m butterfly: 1-Hassan Youshe (HPS) 01.13.13; 2-Adnan Zaheer (NC) 01.16.62; 3-Rameez Azam (NC) 01.18.13.

100m breaststroke: Suleman Saadat (HPS) 01.22.49; 2-Bilal Ejaz (HPS) 01.30.17; 3-Rameez Azam (NC) 01.33.84.

4x100m freestyle relay: 1-KC (Mazhar Naqvi, Mustafa Naqvi, Hussain Youshe, Adnan Ismail) 04.39.54; 2-HPS (Mohammad Yaseen, Saif-ur-Rehman, Abbas Ali, Hassan Youshe) 04.41.51; 3- NC (Rameez Azam, Adnan Zaheer, Akbar Ali Khan, Ahsan Mushtaq) 04.55.29.

400m freestyle: 1-Ghulam M. Ansari (DUA) 04.59.82; 2-Adnan Zaheer (NC) 05.39.64; 3-Saifur Rehman (HPS) 05.53.33.

50m butterfly: 1-Hassan Youshe (HPS) 29.72 (NR); 2-Shaikh M. Yousuf (NSC) 32.14; 3-Abbas Ali 34.91.

100m freestyle: 1-Hassan Youshe (HPS) 01.03.77; 2-Shaikh M. Yousuf (NSC) 01.03.83; 3-Rameez Azam (NC) 01.05.87.

200m individual medley: 1-Hassan Youshe (HPS) 02.59.25; 2-Rameez Azam (NC) 03.06.23; 3-Abbas Ali (HPS) 03.28.13.

Group VI (U-18):

200m breaststroke: 1-Suleman Saadat (HPS) 02.58.48; 2-Mohammad Essa (HPS) 03.26.02; 3- Narius Sethna (KGS) 03.45.28.

4x100m medley relay: 1- HPS (Mustafa Ali, Suleman Saadat, Abbas Ali, Hassan Youshe) 05.52.32; 2- KGS (Danesh N. Gillani, Ammar Khaku, Narius Sethna, Syed Ahsan Asad) 06.43.41; 3-NC (Faizan Majeed, Ahsan Mushtaq, Naeem Sarwar, S. Mustafa) 07.06.34.

100m breaststroke: 1-Suleman Saadat (HPS) 01.20.79; 2-Mohammad Essa (HPS) 01.30.37; 3-Narius Sethna (KGS) 01.31.45.

100m freestyle: 1-Hassan Youshe (HPS) 01.05.12; 2-Shaikh M. Yousuf (NSC) 01.05.84; 3-Ahsan Mushtaq (NC) 01.08.68.

100m butterfly: 1-Hassan Youshe (HPS) 01.18.97; 2-Ahsan Mushtaq (NC) 01.23.21; 3-Abbas Ali (HPS) 01.24.87.

50m backstroke: 1-Hassan Youshe (HPS) 35.29 (NR); 2-Shaikh M. Yousuf (NSC) 35.90; 3-Narius Sethna (KGS) 38.38.

50m freestyle: 1-Hassan Youshe (HPS) 29.27; 2-Shaikh M. Yousuf (NSC) 29.59; 3-Abbas Ali (HPS) 31.28.

50m breaststroke: 1-Suleman Saadat (HPS) 37.38; 2-Mohammad Essa (HPS) 40.05; 3-Narius Sethna (KGS) 43.32.

Group V (U-16):

50m backstroke: 1-Sadan Shaikh (KC) 39.35; 2-Khurram Asif (HPS) 41.11; 3-Aamir Raja (HPS) 42.33.

50m breaststroke: 1-Khurram Asif (HPS) 38.61; 2-Bilal Saeed (KGS) 40.08; 3-Ali Raza (HPS) 40.95.

50m freestyle: 1-Nabi Chaudhri (KGS) 31.58; 2-Sadan Shaikh (KC) 31.89; 3-Aamir Raja (HPS) 32.43.

100m breaststroke: 1-Khurram Asif (HPS) 01.24.54; 2-Ali Raza (HPS) 01.26.67; 3-Bilal Saeed (KGS) 01.30.63.

100m backstroke: 1-Khurram Asif (HPS) 01.31.51; 2-Sadan Shaikh (KC) 01.32.89; 3-Aamir Raja (HPS) 01.33.70.

100m butterfly: 1-Aamir Raja (HPS) 01.28.74; 2-Hamid Ali Khan (OC) 01.33.91; 3-Huzaifa Feroz (HPS) 01.34.43.

Group IV (U-14):

200m individual medley: 1-Aniq Anwar (OC) 02.40.35 (NR); 2-Mazhar Naqvi (KC) 02.40.37; 3-Ghulam M. Ansari (DUA) 02.42.52.

50m backstroke: 1-Faiz Khalil (KC) 34.21 (NR); 2-Aniq Anwar (OC) 34.24; 3-Rohail Tariq (KGS) 38.41.

100m breaststroke: 1-Aniq Anwar (OC) 01.17.78 (NR); 2-Munaf Haneef (HPS) 01.31.96; 3-Salar Hussain (HPS) 01.34.84.

200m freestyle: 1-Ghulam M. Ansari (DUA) 02.17.93 (NR); 2-Mazhar Naqvi (KC) 02.24.12; 3-Faiz Khalil (KGS) 02.33.51.

50m butterfly: 1-Ghulam M. Ansari (DUA) 32.14; 2-Aniq Anwar (OC) 33.55; 3-Mustafa Naqvi (KC) 35.11.

Group III (U-12):

50m freestyle: 1-Sameed Ali Khan (HPS) 34.65; 2-Zen Saeed (CS) 35.47; 3-Shahid Khan (HPS) 36.66.50m breaststroke: 1-sameed Ali Khan (HPS) 44.07; 2-M. Bilal Qasim (NC) 45.58; 3-Mustafa Farishta (KGS) 46.14.

50m butterfly: 1-Sameed Ali Khan (HPS) 39.74; 2-Hamza Khalid (BA) 40.89; 3-Shahid Hussain (HPS) 44.22.

100m breaststroke: 1-Sameed Ali Khan (HPS) 01.39.99; 2-Mustafa Farishta (KGS) 01.46.00; 3-M. Bilal Qasim (NC) 01.48.15.

50m backstroke: 1-Hamza Khalid (BA) 42.24; 2-Shahid Khan (HPS) 44.49; 3-Humza Mirza (CAS) 45.37.

100m individual medley: 1- Sameed Ali Khan (HPS) 01.33.03; 2-Hamza Khalid (BA) 01.37.47; 3-Mustafa Farishta (KGS) 01.41.29.

Group II (U-10):

50m backstroke: 1-Ali Soorty (NC) 43.34; 2-Azam Bin Adnan (NSC) 44.32; 3-Ahmed Godal (KC) 45.69.

4x50m medley relay: 1-NC (Ali Soorty, Amin Zeb, Hassan Currimbhay, Sinan Asdar) 03.12.94; 2-KGS (Shahmir Babur, Mustafa Daghi, Raza Khalid, Emir Irfan) 03.15.94; 3- KC (Ahmed Godil, Rahul Bherwani, Hasan Gagai, Umer Serang) 03.25.91.

50m freestyle: 1-Ali Soorty (NC) 36.34; 2-Zayan Sardar (BA) 36.54; 3-Shamim Babur (KGS) 39.70.

4x50m freestyle relay: 1-NC (Ali Soorty, Amin Zeb, Hassan Currimbhay, Sinan Asdar) 02.43.18; 2-KC (Ahmed Godil, Umer Serang, Hasan Gagai, Ali Fawad) 03.01.54; 3-HPS (Umair Aziz, Hasan Farhat, Osama Wahab, Asif Hussain) 03.14.08.

Group I (U-8):

25m backstroke: 1-Hamza Faisal Garib (KGS) 26.79; 2-Shahnur Babur (KS) 27.13; 3-Adam Shamim (NC) 27.51.

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