Ariful, Summa shine on opening day

The Syed Nazrul Islam National Swimming Complex in Mirpur was not as swarmed similar to the case amid age-aggregate swimming titles, yet there was absolutely some eagerness among the 121 taking part swimmers from eight divisions on the main day of the last period of the inaugural Bangladesh Youth Games yesterday. 

These diversions are accepted to be the stage for capable competitors to be picked for future preparing and yesterday, the officially prepared swimmers, who were uncovered through the 'look for the best swimmers' drive, ruled the pool to share eight gold awards among them. 

Roughly 20 swimmers from the long haul preparing under national mentor Park Tae Gun are speaking to their particular divisions in 14 occasions - seven for young men and seven for young ladies. There are likewise some BKSP understudies speaking to their particular divisions. Be that as it may, most of the members are crude and apparently unequipped for going up against the prepared swimmers. 

Ariful Islam of Kishorganj, a previous BKSP understudy and national swimmer hoarded the spotlight on the principal day by stowing three gold decorations. Summa Akter of Jhenaidah, the more youthful sister of national swimmer Sonia Akter Tumpa, won two gold decorations. Both these swimmers are a piece of the long haul preparing camp, being controlled by the national swimming alliance. 

Likewise among the gold awards were Al Amin, Rupa Khaun and Khadiza Akter Bristy of Kushtia – every one of whom are a piece of the preparation camp. 

Ariful, the national champion in 50m and 100m breaststroke occasions, is right now in preparing to participate in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in Australia. He effortlessly outshone different members in 50m breaststroke and 50m and 100m free-form occasions. He has an awesome possibility of including two more gold awards today in the 200m free-form and 100 breaststroke occasions. 

In any case, it was Summa Akter, little girl of a betel-leaf seller in Jhenaidah, who enchanted everybody by winning gold in the 50m and 100m free-form occasions. Summa, who enlisted in BKSP in 2014 from a town Madrasa, got the consideration of the selectors amid the ability chase program in the wake of winning a gold award in 50 free-form. She had gotten Tk 5 lakh money grant from the Prime Minister and utilized it to transform her dad's shop into a basic supply. 

"I need to be a major swimmer and need to partake in the Olympics like my senior sister [Sonia Akter Tumpa]," Summa stated, including that her first target is to get a place in the national group to speak to Bangladesh in the South Asian Games. 

Despite the fact that there were no mentionable swimmers outside the prepared up and BKSP swimmers, Ria Akter of Khulna division, Shrabanti Akter of Chittagong division and Rokeya Akter of Rajshahi division had the fulfillment of returning home with no less than an award each. 

Khulna division ruled the pool with five gold awards took after by Dhaka division, who rode on Ariful's endeavors to win three gold decorations. 

Be that as it may, the principal gold decoration of the last period of the diversions went to shooter Mehdi Hasan Limon of Rajshahi division. He won golf in young men's 0.177 Open Sight Air Rifle occasion at the Gulshan Shooting Complex. 

Out of six occasions chose yesterday, Khulna division won two while Dhaka, Mymensingh, Rajshahi and Barisal sacked one each.