Hyderabad: Akbar Ali Mir of Bengal created a meet record in National Games swimming Monday. He bagged the gold in 50m butterfly clocking 26.52 seconds to better the mark of 26.78 seconds set by R. Anil Kumar of Services in the heats.

K. Rajiv of Kerala took the silver in 26.61 and Anil settled for bronze after clocking 26.71. Both bettered the existing mark.

Former Bengal gymnast Tumpa Debnath, now representing Andhra Pradesh, won the gold in vaulting horse by logging 8.325 points. Bengal’s Rupali Halder (7.850) got silver and Maharashtra’s Asmita Chitale (7.825) the bronze.

Bengal’s hopes of a medal in women’s volleyball ended as Maharashtra beat them 25-16, 11-25, 25-10, 25-21 in the third-place match. Bengal reached the semi-finals in women’s football with Manipur demolishing Assam 11-0 in a group A encounter. Manipur had earlier beaten Bengal 8-0, but the former made the cut on the back of their 6-3 win over Assam.

Bronze for Soma

In women’s 100m hurdles, Bengal’s Soma Biswas got the bronze in 14.30 seconds. Orissa’s Anuradha Biswal (13.95) won gold, while the bronze went to Poonam Dojana (14.29) of Karnataka.