Satnam Singh and Salman Khan Claim India's First-Ever Asian Games Medal in Men's Double Sculls

Key facts

• Satnam Singh and Salman Khan won bronze in the men's double sculls at the Asian Games 2026 in Nagoya, India's first-ever medal in the event, clocking 6:13.25 at the Nagara-Kagawa International Regatta Course.
• China's Yi Xudi and Yide Nie won gold in 6:09.37, while Uzbekistan's Pavel Sorin and Mekhrojbek Mamatkulov took silver in 6:10.49.
• Balraj Panwar finished fourth in the men's single sculls final with a time of 6:54.80, 15.82 seconds behind China's gold medallist Deng Zhiwei.
• Satnam Singh had earlier won bronze in the men's quadruple sculls at the Hangzhou Asian Games.
• Satnam Singh, from Punjab's Mansa district, is a former national-level handball player who took up rowing around eight years ago.
• Bajrang Lal Thakkar remains the only Indian to win Asian Games gold in the men's single sculls, at the 2010 Guangzhou Games.