Asian Games rowing: Two silver medals for India in men's four

Nov 18, 2010 |

IANS

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Guangzhou: India's sixth day campaign at the Asian Games got off to a bright start on Thursday with rowers winning two silver medals in the men's four and lightweight men's four events at the International Rowing Centre here.

Anil Kumar, Saji Thomas, Ranjit Singh and Jenil Krishnan won silver in men's four event with an overall timing of 6 mins 16.79 seconds, 10.39s behind gold medallist China (Sun Zhaowen, Wu Lin, Li Dongjian and Liu Kun).

Uzbekistan (Sergey Tyan, Efim Kuznetsov, Botir Murodov and Yukob Khamzaev) took the bronze, pipping Kazakhstan with a timing of 6 mins 16.79s, 16.30s behind China.

The Indian team maintained a good pace right from the start and were behind China by 0.25 seconds after 500 meters. The Chinese, however, widened the gap as the race progressed. India gave them a tough fight but their timing of 1 mins 36.74s in the final 500 meters was not enough.

In lightweight men's four, Lokesh Kumar, Manjeet Singh, Rajesh Kumar Yadav and Satish Joshi finished second with a timing of 6 mins 13.32s.

The Indian team was 3.18 seconds behind Japan (Takahiro Suda, Hideki Omoto, Yu Kataoka and Yoshinori Sato), who took the gold, clocking 6 mins 10.14s.

Hong Kong's Shek Chin Leung, Cheong Ki Kwan, Yin Shun Liao and Mang Chiu Tang won the bronze, 4.70s behind Japan.

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