Asian Games 2026: Indian rowers end fifth in males’s quadruple sculls ultimate

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 24 (ANI): The Indian quartet of Kulwinder Singh, Navdeep Singh, Jakar Khan and Balraj Panwar secured a fifth spot within the males’s quadruple sculls ultimate in rowing on the ongoing Asian Games at Aichi-Nagoya on Thursday. 

The Indian workforce managed timings of 5:52.17, as per ESPN, inserting them behind the gold medalists, China (5:46.03), Indonesia (5:47.90) and Uzbekistan (5:48.96). 

In some extra rowing motion, the pairing of Satnam Singh and Salman Khan secured a bronze medal within the males’s double sculls ultimate on Thursday. 

The duo clocked a time of 6:13.25, simply 3.48 seconds in need of gold medalist Chinese pair of Yi Xudi / Nie Yide and a pair of.76 seconds behind the silver medalists Mekhrojbek Mamatkulov / Pavel Sorin, as per ESPN. 

Satnam-Salman maintained the second place at 500m, 1000m and 1500m however fell away in the direction of the tip. At one level, they have been simply half a second behind the Chinese pair. 

This is India’s thirteenth medal on the ongoing occasion, having already received a gold, 5 silvers and now including a seventh bronze to the tally. 

In males’s singles sculls competitions, Balraj Panwar missed out on a medal, ending fourth. Balraj managed to remain second at 500m, 1000m and 1500m marks, however later discovered himself outdone by Shakhboz Kholmurzaev of Uzbekistan and Tatsuya Sakurama of Japan through the ultimate 500 m stretch, and he misplaced the medal. 

Balraj maintained a five-second lead over Sakurama forward of the ultimate stretch however completed eight seconds in need of him, clocking timings of 6:54.80, 15 seconds behind the gold medalist Zhiwei Deng of China. (ANI)