Indian rowers staged twin comebacks to finish the day with two bronze and take their general tally to 5 medals within the watersport on the Asian Games right here on Monday. The day started with the quartet of Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar and Ashish Goliyan narrowly lacking a silver in males’s fours occasion. Then the lads’s quadruple sculls crew of Satnam Singh, Parminder Singh, Jakar Khan and Sukhmeet Singh completed third on the rostrum with a timing of 6:08.61 seconds, behind Uzbekistan (6:04.64) and gold medallists China (6:02.65). (Asian Games 2023 Medals Tally)

The quadruple skulls quartet improved from fourth place to complete third within the last 500-metre of the 2000-metre race.

In the lads’s 4 occasion too, after mendacity fourth within the last 500metre of the 2000m race, the quartet confirmed excellent coordination to complete third with 6:10.81s, and was pipped by China (6:10.04) by a fraction of seconds.

Uzbekistan took the highest spot within the podium with a timing of 6:04.96.

Indian rower Balraj Panwar nonetheless missed out on a maiden Asian Games podium, ending fourth within the males’s single sculls.

The 24-year-old from Karnal, who was among the many top-three on the 1500-mark, faltered within the last 500m to slide to fourth place with a timing of seven:08.79s.

He completed lower than 9 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, whereas Japan’s Ryuta Arakawa (6:59.79) and Hong Kong’s Hin Chun Chiu completed with silver and bronze respectively.

The Indian oarswomen upset probably the most, ending backside within the five-team subject of the ladies’s eight with a timing of seven:05.71s, method behind China who took the gold medal clocking 6:33.61.

The Indian crew of Sonali Swain, Ritu Kaudi, Priya Devi Thangjam, Varsha Kattathara, Aswathi Padinjarayil, Mrunmayee Salgaonkar, Tendenthoi Devi Haobijam, Rukmani and Geetanjali Gurugubelli hardly posed any problem to their opponents.

Even the fourth-placed Thailand completed greater than 15 seconds forward of the Indians.

Indian rowers have now gained two silver and three bronze medals.

India had bagged two silver and a bronze medal on Sunday.

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