Rowing: India's Swarn is fourth, advances

Close X

To Start receiving timely alerts please follow the below steps:

Click on the Menu icon of the browser, it opens up a list of options.
Click on the “Options ”, it opens up the settings page,
Here click on the “Privacy & Security” options listed on the left hand side of the page.
Scroll down the page to the “Permission” section .
Here click on the “Settings” tab of the Notification option.
A pop up will open with all listed sites, select the option “ALLOW“, for the respective site under the status head to allow the notification.
Once the changes is done, click on the “Save Changes” option to save the changes.

London, Jul 28: India's Swarn Singh Virk finished fourth in the heats of the single sculls event of rowing competition in the London Olympics 2012 on Saturday.

Virk, who took 6:54.04 to complete the 2km distance in heat number one at Eton Dorney Rowing Centre, will compete in the repechage round on Sunday to see if he can advance further.

Tim Maeyens of Belgium won the heat in 6:42.52 while Fournier Rodriguez of Cuba and Patrick Loliger Salas of Mexico were second and third in 6:46.35 and 6:46.35 respectively. The top three directly qualifies for the quarterfinal round.

Other two Indian rowers, Manjeet Singh and Sandeep Kumar, will compete in the lightweight double sculls and they start their campaign on Sunday.

PTI

Story first published: Thursday, August 24, 2017, 17:28 [IST]

Other articles published on Aug 24, 2017

Sporting Buzz

Rowing: India's Swarn is fourth, advances