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Balraj Panwar secured India’s first Paris Olympics quota in rowing by ending third in the lads’s single scull occasion of the 2024 World Asian and Oceanian Olympic and Paralympic Qualification Regetta in Chungju, South Korea on April 21.
The 25-year-old Indian Army rower, who narrowly missed out on a bronze in his maiden look on the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, final 12 months, clocked 7:01.27 minutes to complete third in the 2000 m race and seal the quota.
In the lads’s single scull, the highest 5 make the Olympics minimize.
India did not qualify for the lads’s light-weight double sculls, an occasion the nation participated in on the final Olympics in Tokyo. In an occasion the place the top-two earn the quota, the Indian duo of Ujjwal Kumar and Arvind Singh completed third.
India could have a solitary entry in rowing on the quadrennial extravaganza slated from July 26.
Arjun Lal and Arvind Singh represented the nation in males’s light-weight double scull on the Tokyo Olympics and returned with an eleventh place end. The Asian Qualifiers had been held concurrently with the Asian Rowing Cup the place India received a gold medal courtesy the duo of Salman Khan and Nitin Deol in males’s double scull occasion.
A day after their achievement, Panwar, who hails from Karnal in Haryana, put up a dominant present after a gradual begin.
In the first 500m leg, Panwar was mendacity third behind eventual gold medallist Vladislav Yakovlev of Kazakhstan and Hong Kong’s Hin Chun Chiu.
But Panwar used his energy to race forward and seize the lead, passing the midway mark (1000m) with a timing of three:25.51.
He held on to his lead until the penultimate stretch of 1500m, which he crossed with a timing of 5:12.67, three seconds forward of his Hong Kong rival. But Yakovlev produced an outstanding restoration in the ultimate lap and took the highest spot with a timing of 6:59.46 seconds.
Indonesia’s Memo Memo additionally completed inside 7 minutes to get previous Panwar and take the second spot.
