Rowers end campaign with two more bronze

India`s Sukhmeet Singh, Parminder Singh, Jakar Khan and Satnam Singh (Pic: PTI)

Indian rowers staged twin comebacks to bag two bronze and sign off their Asian Games campaign in the watersport with five medals here on Monday. India bettered their medal count from the last edition when they had three podium finishes. However, they failed to win a gold medal this time.

Overall, India finished fifth here, an improvement of one place from their 2018 outing in Indonesia, where they had grabbed one gold and two bronze medals. Hosts China topped the tally with 11 gold, two silver, while Uzbekistan finished second with two gold, four silver and one bronze.

Also Read: Maha CM congratulates Rudranksh, Aishwary and Divyansh for winning gold medal

The day began with the quartet of Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar and Ashish Goliyan narrowly missing a silver in men's fours event. Then the men's quadruple sculls team of 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).

This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever