Asian Games 2023: Arjun Singh, Sunil Singh Win Bronze Medal For India In Men's Canoe Double 1000m Event

The Indian duo of Arjun Singh and Sunil Singh provided the country with its first medal of the tenth day of the ongoing Asian Games in Hangzhou on Tuesday.

They put up a remarkable performance and ended up winning the Bronze Medal in Canoeing in the Men’s double 1000m sprint event.

They finished the event with the timing of 3:53.329 in third place to win the country's only second medal in the event in the Asian Games history.

In the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, India had bagged a Bronze Medal in the same event that was clinched by the duo of 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 finished in the second position, bagging the silver with a timing of 3:49.991s.