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Swimming at the 1999 South Asian Games | |
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The swimming competition at the 1995 South Asian Federation Games in Madras, India.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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50 m freestyle | Sebastian Xavier | 23.89 | ||||
100 m freestyle | Sebastian Xavier | 53.95 | Muhammad Maroof | |||
200 m freestyle | J. Abhijit | 1:59.44 | Kamal Salman Masud | |||
400 m freestyle | Kamal Salman Masud | 4:16.00 | ||||
1500 m freestyle | Akhtar Zeb | |||||
100 m backstroke | ||||||
200 m backstroke | Muhammad Taz | |||||
100 m breaststroke | ||||||
200 m breaststroke | Mohammad Mizanur Rahman | 2:32.05 | ||||
100 m butterfly | K. Suresh Kumar | 2:07.68 | Kamal Salman Masud | |||
200 m butterfly | Kamal Salman Masud | |||||
200 m individual medley | J. Abhijit | 2:11.27 | ||||
400 m individual medley | J. Abhijit | 4:42.57 | ||||
4×100 m freestyle relay | Pakistan | |||||
4×200 m freestyle relay | India | 8:10.91 | Pakistan | |||
4×100 m medley relay |
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