Canoe: Arjun-Sunil win India’s first medal

Arjun Singh (left) and Sunil Singh Salam. Pic/PTI

Canoers Arjun Singh and Sunil Singh Salam combined well to win India's first medal at the Asian Games since 1994, bagging a bronze in the men's double 1,000m event on Tuesday.

The Indian duo clocked 3:53.329 seconds to finish third, winning the country's only second medal in the event in the Games' history.

In the 1994 Hiroshima edition of the Games, India had bagged a bronze in the same event through Siji Sadanandan and Johnny Rommel.

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Uzbekistan's Shokhmurod Kholmuradov and Nurislom Tukhtasin Ugli won the gold clocking 3:43.796s while Kazakhstan pair of Timofey Yemelyanov and Sergey Yemelyanov claimed the silver with a timing of 3:49.991s.

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