Asian Games - 2010 Subedar Bajrang Lal Takhar     Subedar Bajrang Lal Takhar led the charge with a historic gold in men's singles scull as Indian rowers notched up three more medals to put India's floundering campaign at the Asian Games back on track on Friday. Starting in lane 3, the 29-year-old Bajrang Lal led the 2000m race from start to finish and rowed his way to the gold with a few lengths of boats to spare in 7 minutes and 4.78 seconds. Rajasthan-born Bajrang Lal, who won the Asian championship gold last year in Korea and was the pre-event favourite, was followed across the finish line by Chinese Taipei's Wang Ming Hui (7:07.33), who took the silver, and Iraq's Haeider Hamarasheid (7:10.10), who won the bronze. Four years ago, Bajrang Lal had become the first Indian to win a silver medal at the Asian Games. Bajrang Lal, the 2006 South Asian Games champion in both single and double sculls, said later that he was determined to change the Doha s...

The Indian Sailing team of Lt Cdr (Retd) F Tarapore and team mates Cdr Atool Sinha, Balraj CPO (MA), Shekhar Singh Yadav POR (Tel) and Trunal were accorded a warm welcome at New Delhi by the Indian Navy and the Yachting Association of India (YAI) after winning a Silver Medal in the Match Racing event at the ongoing Asian Games 2010. Lt Cdr (Retd) F Tarapore, had won the Fireball class gold medal as crew of Zarir Karanjia in the 1982 Asian Games sailing regatta held off the Mumbai harbour and also picked up a hat-trick of bronze medals in the Asian Games held between 1986 and 1994 in different classes of boats. The Indian Naval Watermanship Training Centre, Mumbai has been a training centre for champion sailors and has produced 13 Arjuna awardees, 02 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardees and 01 Dronacharya awardee for the sport in the past 40 years. The YAI was formally constituted on 15 May 1960 and was registered under the Societies Regis...