Para-swimmer Prasanta gets India's first medal in pool

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Prasanta Karmakar today created history by becoming the first Indian para-swimmer to get a medal when he claimed bronze in the 50m freestyle event at Dr. SPM Acquatics Complex here today. Clocking his personal best of 27.48s, Karmakar finished behind Simon Miller of England (26.70). Matthew Cowdrey of Australia bettered his own timing to create a world record in the same event.
    
The Aussie eclipsed his previous record with a winning time of 25.33.

That swim beat his 2008 mark of 25.34, set at the Beijing Paralympics, by the slimmest of margins. He also smashed his Commonwealth Games record of 25.66 set during qualifying this year.
    
India's biggest hope in main swimming event, Virdhawal Khade, who made it to the 50m butterfly final, finished
seventh. Having made history by making the first Games final, Khade clocked 24.61 to finish seventh.