On Thursday, Indian rowers Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh finished 11th in the men\u2019s lightweight double sculls event at the Tokyo Olympics, the best ever performance for India at the Games.<\/p>\n
The Indian duo finished fifth in the Final B, which was not a medal round, and 11th overall at the Sea Forest Waterway, clocking 6:29.66s. After the Final, A race later in the day, Ireland, Germany, and Italy won gold, silver, and bronze medals, respectively.<\/p>\n
After finishing sixth in the second semifinal on Wednesday, Arjun and Arvind were unable to advance to the medal round. They finished last in the six-team semifinal two with a time of 6:24.41s. The medal round was open to the top three pairs from each of the two semifinals. By reaching the semifinals, Arjun and Arvind have accomplished the best-ever Olympic result for Indian rowers.<\/span><\/p>\n Arvind serves as the team\u2019s stroker while Arjun serves as the bower. Last Saturday, the two tied for sixth place in their heats. Two rowers in a sculling boat, each with two oars, compete in this rowing event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reaching the semifinals, Arjun and Arvind have accomplished the best-ever Olympic result for Indian rowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":42864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1791,1526,638],"class_list":["post-22678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-athletes","tag-olympics","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}