Asian Games: India's Rowing Men's Team won gold medal, third medal of the day in this event
In the rowing, Dushyant Kumar in singles, while Rohit Kumar and Bhagwan Singh got a bronze medal in doubles
Asian Games India's Rowing Men's Team won a gold medal, the third medal of the day in this event |
On the sixth day in the Asian Games, India won three medals in rowing. Men's team in Rowing brought this Asian Games first gold medal to India. In the Quadruple Sculls competition, India's Sarwar Singh, Dattu Bhokanal, Om Prakash and Sukhmeet Singh got the first position, taking the time of 6 minutes and 17 seconds. Earlier, at the beginning of the day, India got two bronze medals in rowing itself.
In the male lightweight singles, Dushyant confirmed the medal with a time of 7 minutes and 18 seconds. Immediately after this lightweight double sculls, Rohit Kumar and Lord Singh also won a bronze. Both took 7 minutes and 4 seconds to complete the race. With this, India's total medal count reached 21 with five gold medals in Asian Games.
For Dushyant, they have their second bronze medal in Asian Games. He won a bronze medal in Incheon in 2014. In the 300-meter air rifle shooting, India's Amit Kumar and Harjinder Singh missed the medal. On the other hand, Sandeep Sejwal of India reached the final round by securing the sixth position in the swimming heat round.
India hopes in shooting: Today, a total of 43 gold medals are at stake. Today is a special day for India in the 10-meter air pistol shooting. In the Commonwealth Games, both the medal winners of the country, Heena Sidhu and Manu Bhakra, have made the rounds in the final round. Athlete Deepa Karmakar, who has not been able to do anything special so far in Asian Games, will also be participating in the Beam Balance event today. The country will expect a medal from them. In Badminton, Kidambi Srikanth will face the Wong Wang of Hong Kong in Round of 32.
Hoping to win bigger hockey again: At the same time, Indian hockey team will go against Japan at 6.30 pm So far, the team has defeated Indonesia 17-0 in the first two matches of Pool A and Hong Kong 26-0. In such a scenario, the audience will be expected to win another big win from the Indian team. In the 60 kg category, Shiv Thapa and Manoj Kumar in the 69 kg category will fight for the round of 16.
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