Olympian Arvind Sing wins gold at Asian Rowing C’ship

Ban Chang (Thailand), December 12 : .Indias Arvind Sing won the Gold in the Lightweight Men’s Single Sculls at Sundays Asian Rowing Championship.

He beat his competitors with a time 7:55.942India won three silver medals more on Sunday to end the championship.India won silver in the Mens Lightweight Double Sculls, Men’s Quadrapul Sculls, and Men’s Coxless Four.

India won four silver and two gold medals in the final competition.Arvind Singh finished 11th in Tokyo Olympics, along with Arjun Lal Jat, in the Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls.

This is Indias highest performance ever at the Olympics.He was first among competitors from Uzbekistan and China as well as Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand.

Arvind won the race with a great performance, beating Uzbek and Chinese sailors to win the gold medal.Indias Ashish Pugat and Sukhjinder Singh took the silver medal in Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls with times of 7:12.568 and 7.Indias Bittu, Jakar Khan and Manjeet Kumar won silver in the Mens Quadruple Sculls race.They lost the gold by 0.53 seconds.Their time was 6.33.083.

In Mens Coxless Fours final, Indias Jasveer Singh, Punit Kumar, Gurmeet Singh and Charanjeet Singh won the silver by clocking 6:51.661.The Indian women rowers, who figured in the Quadruple Sculls and Light Weight Double Sculls finals, finished fifth in their respective races."Overall, another good performance by India.

Congratulations and best wishes to all the rowers, coaches, support staff and backend administrators, who managed the team all these months.A special mention to Ismail Baig, who consistently, year on year, turns out sterling results for India," said MV Sriram, secretary general of Rowing Federation of India in a release in Sunday.

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