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Services Sports Control Board: Nina Venkatesh of Karnataka won her fourth gold medal of the Games claiming the Women’s 50M Butterfly with a new Games record while Virdhawal Khade did the double, adding the Men’s 50M Butterfly to his tally in the swimming competition of the 37th National Games here.

Nina stopped the clock at 27.70 seconds to win the gold ahead of Manavi Varma of Karnataka (27.90) and Rutuja Khade of Maharashtra (28.38 secs) in the women’s 50m Butterfly.

Virdhawal, who had won the 50m freestyle, edged out his state mate Mihir Ambre (24.67s) and Kerala’s Sajan Prakash (24.78s) to win the gold with a new Games record time of 24.60s.