Asian Games 2026: Poor outings for Indian contingent in Canoe Sprint

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 24 (ANI): India produced some dissappointing performances in Canoe Sprint at day 5 of the continuing Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya on Thursday. 

In the boys’s kayak 4 500 m ultimate, the Indian quartet of Harshwardhan Shaktawat, Varinder Singh, L Naocha Singh Oinam and Arun Singh completed seventh out of 9, clocking timings of 1:28.982. South Korea, China and Japan took dwelling the gold, silver and bronze medals respectively. 

Coming to the Canoe Sprint males’s double 500 m ultimate A, the duo of Gyaneshwor Singh and Raju Rawat completed ninth with a timing of 1:56.121. 

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In the ladies’s competitors, Megha Pradeep completed fourth (out of 5) within the ladies’s canoe single 200 m semifinal and was eradicated. She clocked the timings of 51.093. 

Also, the duo of Soniya Devi-Parvathy Geetha was dissappointing within the ladies’s kayak double 500 m semifinal, ending on the backside spot with timings of two:01.020. 

Coming to rowing, India’s Gurbani Kaur, Poonam, Tendenthoi Devi Haobijam and Aleena Anto achieved a sixth-place end within the ladies’s 4 ultimate, clocking timings of 6:55.32. China took dwelling the gold (6:34.87, adopted by Uzbekistan with silver and Vietnam with bronze.

Earlier, Roshibina Devi secured her second consecutive silver medal on the Asian Games, shedding to China’s Zhang Xiaoyu within the ladies’s sanda 60 kg ultimate at Aichi-Nagoya on Thursday. 

Roshibina, additionally a 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games silver medalist, misplaced each her rounds by a 0-5 scoreline, and the Chinese opponent sealed the match 2-0, as per ESPN.

Having already received a 2018 Asian Games bronze, Roshibina turns into the primary Indian girl to win three back-to-back medals in Wushu on the Asian Games.

Roshibina loved a formidable run in Japan, which included beating 2023 world champion, Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy of Vietnam.

On Wednesday, Roshibina defeated Indonesia’s Thania Kusumaningtyas 2-0 within the semi-final to safe her place within the title conflict.

This is India’s 14th medal on the ongoing occasion, having already received a gold, including the sixth silver to the tally. India has additionally received seven bronze medals to date. 

Earlier, the rowing 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 China’s gold medalists 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 top. At one level, they had been simply half a second behind the Chinese pair. 

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)