Indian rowing team strikes gold

Indian Oarsmen rowed with great endurance, strength and power to win all four events. (Single sculls, double sculls, coxless pair, coxless fours) and take all four gold meddles on Rowing competition of the 10th South Asian Game held on the Bolgoda Lake.

In the first event on the opening day Indian Sculler Bajrangal Takhar got into early lead rowing with great ease and maintain the lead to the finish line with a good time of 07:24:64 Secs.

The Indian Sculler combined with Sunil Kumar to win the Double Sculls 'clocking' 06:43:57 Secs; to overcome the Pakistan combination. Indian rowers continued to dominate on the new venue at Bolgoda Lake winning the third successive Gold in the Coxless pairs event. Dharmesh Sangwan and Satinish Joshi used perfect balance and power to win the event with a time of 06:49:24 Secs.

The last event of the day Coxless fours was also won by India - the fourth gold a fine achievement by Manoj Augustine (B) Gurdarshan Singh (2) Sukhjeet Singhe (3) Jenil Krishnan (s) rowed with teamwork of high quality and perfect coordination to win the event with a time of 06:19:1 Secs.

Single Sculls:

Bajrangal Takhar (India) beat (2) Muhammad Akram (Pakistan) Time 07:24:64 secs., Akram timed 7:39:42 secs., (3) Sena Fonseka 08:21:26 secs.

Double Sculls:

Sunil Kumar and Bajrangal Takar (India) beat Maqbool Ali and Ali Hassan (Pakistan) Time: 06:43:57 secs., Pakistan pair timed 07:02:66 secs., (3) Chandana Kumarapperuma (Sri Lanka) 07:30:99 secs.

Coxless Pairs:

Dharmesh Sangwan and Satinish Joshi (India) beat Syed Shajjar Abbas and Muhammad Abdeel Sultan (Pakistan). Time: 06:49:24 secs., 2) Time - 07:00:62 secs., (3) Chaminda Sisira Kumara and Nishantha Chandana (Sri Lanka) 07:53:08 secs.

Coxless Fours:

Manoj Augustine (B), Gurdarshan Singh (2), Sukhjeet Singh (3) Jenil Krishnan (S) of India beat Farasat Ali (B) Ghulam Nabi (2), Azmat Javad (3), Sabir Ahmad (S) Time: 06:19:17 secs., to 06:30:23 secs (3) H. D. Senaratne (B), Ramith Jayasinghe (2) Rathna Kumara (3), Nemantha Hewagama (S) - 07:26:16 secs.