Guangzhou: Indian rowers on Friday continued their brilliant show at the Asian Games as they won a gold, a silver and a bronze on the seventh day of the event in Guangzhou, China.
Takhar created history by clinching the country's first ever gold medal in rowing by winning the men's rowing singles sculls event.
Starting in lane 3, the Indian Army officer, led the 2000m race right from the start and went on to win with a timing of 7:04.78.
Chinese Taipei's Wang Ming Hui (7:07.33) took the silver, while Iraq's Haeider Hamarasheid (7:10.10) won the bronze with a third place finish.
After Bajrang Lal's achievement, Pratima and Pramila ensured that the women too made their presence felt on the podium.
Starting in lane 4, the Indians completed their first 500m in 1:54.21sec to be fourth.
Pratima and Pramila then jumped to the third spot with a timing of 3:51.40sec at the halfway mark.
They maintained the position for the next 1000m and finished with a timing of 7:47.50sec.
The Chinese pair of Zhengping Sun and Hong Ling clinched the gold after clocking 7:22.06sec, while the Kazakh duo of Oxana Nazarova and Svetlana Germanovich settled for silver with a timing of 7:35.13sec.
Also, Indian rowers won a silver medal in the men's eight event on Friday.
The team comprising Girraj Singh, Saji Thomas, Lokesh Kumar, Manjeet Singh, Rajesh Kumar Yadav, Ranjit Singh, Satish Joshi and Jenil Krishnan finished second behind China with a timing of 5:49.50.
(With inputs from PTI)
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