Indian rowers have bagged two more bronze medals in the ongoing Asian Games in China. Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar and Ashish Goliyan bagged a bronze in men’s fours event at the Asian Games in Hanzzhou on Monday.
And then, in the men’s quadruple sculls team event, Satnam Singh, Parminder Singh, Jakar Khan and Sukhmeet Singh finished third on the podium with a timing of 6:08.61 seconds, behind Uzbekistan (6:04.64) and gold medallists China (6:02.65).
The Indian quartet improved from being in fourth place to finish third in the final 500-metre of the 2000-metre race.
With this Indian rowers have two silver and five bronze medals.
Lying fourth in the final 500metre of the 2000m race of the men’s four event, the Indian team showed superb coordination to finish third with 6:10.81s, and was pipped by China (6:10.04) by a fraction of seconds.
Uzbekistan took the top spot in the podium with a timing of 6:04.96.
Indian rower Balraj Panwar however missed out on a maiden Asian Games podium, finishing fourth in the men’s single sculls.
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The 24-year-old from Karnal, who was among the top-three at the 1500-mark, faltered in the final 500m to slip to fourth place with a timing of 7:08.79s.
He finished less than nine seconds behind Hong Kong’s Hin Chun Chiu who took the bronze medal (7:00.55).
China’s Liang Zang secured the gold with 6:57.06, while Japan’s Ryuta Arakawa (6:59.79) and Hong Kong’s Hin Chun Chiu finished with silver and bronze respectively.
With this Indian rowers have two silver and four bronze medals.
India had bagged two silver and a bronze medal on Sunday.
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