Arjun and Sunil win India’s first medal in canoe event at Asian Games since 1994

Canoers Arjun Singh and Sunil Singh Salam combined well to win India's first medal at the Asian Games since 1994, bagging for a bronze in the men's double 1000m event, here on Tuesday. The Indian duo clocked 3:53.329 seconds to finish third, winning the country's only second medal in the event in the Games' history.

Arjun Singha and Sunil Singh clinched a well-deserved bronze in the Men's Canoe Double 1000m event with a timing of 3.53.329.(SAI)

In the 1994 Hiroshima edition of the Games, India had bagged a bronze in the same event through 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 claimed the silver with a timing of 3:49.991s.