Indian Rowing Team News

The proposed training tour in Portugal for the men’s lightweight double sculls team has been cancelled owing to the 14-day quarantine period in the European country. The duo of Arvind Jat and Arvind Singh qualified for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics during the Asia/Oceania Continental Qualifying Regatta.

Tokyo-bound Indian rower Arjun Lal Jat revealed that he was not aware that rowers participate at the Olympics, until the 2016 Rio edition. Along with Arvind Singh, the duo qualified for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in the men’s lightweight double sculls during the qualification event, in Tokyo itself.

Indian national rowing coach Ismail Baig has warned that there would be no entrants from the country if the athletes don’t give their best in the upcoming qualification event, in May. The Indian rowers missed out on a lot of practice time in the past year owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.