Asian Games, India’s day 6 results: Rowers and Rohan Bopanna-Divij Sharan bag gold

The day undoubtedly belonged to the four men in the Men’s Quadruple Sculls final as Om Prakash, Dattu Bhokanal, Sukhmeet Singh and Swarn Singh won a gold in rowing.

India grabbed a rowing gold eight years after Bajrang Lal Thakar won a gold in Guangzhou but there was more to cheer for the Indian contingent as Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan also won their men’s doubles final to win India’s second gold.

There was more disappointment in store for the Kabaddi contingent as the women were toppled by Iran in the final, giving them a silver and making it the first time since the introduction of the sport at the Asiad that India had not won a single gold in Kabaddi.

Kidambi Srikanth and HS Prannoy suffered disappointing days at the office as they both lost their individual encounters in the men’s section. Ashwini Ponappa and Sikki Reddy won their match and progressed to the quarters, making them the first Indian women’s doubles pairing to do so since 1986.

The archers had another miserable outing as Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari lost in the round of 16 in the mixed section of recurve archery. Their compound counterparts didn’t fare much better, losing in the last eight.