Sandeep Sejwal won a rare swimming medal for India at the Asian Games on Friday, with his coach insisting that better facilities at home would have fetched him the gold. Sejwal won the bronze in the 50m breaststroke with a time of 28.26secs, which was only the third Asiad medal in the pool by an Indian in the last 28 years.
Khajan Singh had won a silver in the 200m butterfly at Seoul in 1986 and Virdhawal Khade clinched a bronze in the 50m butterfly event in Guangzhou four years ago. The Delhi-based Sejwal, who trains at Ameen's academy in Bangalore, said he may have won the gold at Incheon if he had matched his personal best of under 28 seconds. "It was a close race, so who knows I may have finished first and heard the national anthem at the pool," the 25-year-old said. "But I will not give up."