Asian Games: India win bronze in men’s canoe double 1000m event
India's Arjun Singh and Sunil Singh Salam clinched a bronze medal in men's canoe double 1000m event
Hangzhou: India’s Arjun Singh and Sunil Singh Salam clinched a bronze medal in men’s canoe double 1000m event at the Asian Games here on Tuesday.
The Indian duo finished with a timing of 3:53.329 seconds to bag the third place and the country’s only second medal in the event in the Asian Games’ history.
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In the 1994 Hiroshima edition of the Games, India had bagged a bronze in the same event by Siji Sadanandan and Johnny Rommel.
Uzbekistan’s Shokhmurod Kholmuradov and Nurislom Tukhtasin Ugli won the gold clocking 3:43.796s, while Kazakhstan pair of Timofey Yemelyanov and Sergey Yemelyanov bagged the silver with a timing of 3:49.991s.
