<p>Indian rowers powered their way to two silver and a bronze medal, launching their campaign in the Asian Games on a rollicking note on Sunday.</p><p>On a pleasant morning with the conditions just perfect for rowing at the Fuyang Water Sports Centre, Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh opened the country's account with a silver medal in the men's lightweight doubles sculls event.</p>.Asian Games: 'Super Sub' Vastrakar takes Indian women to cricket final.<p>The Indian duo clocked 6:28.18s to finish behind China's Junjie Fan and Man Sun, who won gold with 6:23.16s.</p><p>The Uzbekistan pair of Shakhzod Nurmatov and Sobirjon Safaroliyev bagged the bronze clocking 6:33.42s.</p>.<p>The silver was just the preview of the things to come as the gruelling men's coxed eight event saw a keen tussle between China and India before the latter finished second with a time of 5:43.01s, which was 2.84s behind the host team, which clocked 5:40.17.</p><p>The Indian men's coxed-eight team comprised Neeraj, Nareskh Kalwaniya, Neetish Kumar, Charanjeet Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Puneet Kumar and Ashish.</p>.<p>Indonesia, who clocked a time of 5:45.51s were third.</p>.<p>The achievement is all the more creditable given that rowers from powerhouse Uzbekistan and Japan finished fourth and fifth respectively.</p><p>In the coxless pair event, India Babulal Yadav and Lekh Ram had to settle for bronze with a time of 6:50.41 sec, behind gold medallists Hong Kong, China (6:44.20 sec) and Uzbekistan 6:48.11.</p>.<p>India has sent a huge contingent of 33 rowers at the continental games.</p><p>Arvind, following his exploits in lightweight doubles sculls, said the pair was aiming for gold but an injury setback two months back had hampered training.</p><p>"We missed training for 20 to 25 days as I was having lower-back pain two months back. Otherwise, we would have won the gold medal," said Arvind.</p>.<p>He added that their next target will be to aim for glory at the 2024 Paris Olympics.</p><p>"We will now work for the Paris Olympics and then try to win gold at the 2026 Asian Games." Arvind credited his quick recovery to his physiotherapist.</p><p>"I did recovery-related exercises and our physiotherapist prepared me very well to regain strength. He helped me recover in one month," added Arvind.</p>.<p>His team-mate Arjun too said that they had the gold medal on their mind when they started the race.</p><p>"Gold was the target but we did our best. Our coach told us to just do our best. We could not do our (personal) best of 6:19, which we did at our Army nodal centre in Pune," said Arjun.</p>.<p>On the reason they fell back after taking a sizeable lead around the 500m mark, Arjun said, "We pushed hard and did our best today."</p>
<p>Indian rowers powered their way to two silver and a bronze medal, launching their campaign in the Asian Games on a rollicking note on Sunday.</p><p>On a pleasant morning with the conditions just perfect for rowing at the Fuyang Water Sports Centre, Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh opened the country's account with a silver medal in the men's lightweight doubles sculls event.</p>.Asian Games: 'Super Sub' Vastrakar takes Indian women to cricket final.<p>The Indian duo clocked 6:28.18s to finish behind China's Junjie Fan and Man Sun, who won gold with 6:23.16s.</p><p>The Uzbekistan pair of Shakhzod Nurmatov and Sobirjon Safaroliyev bagged the bronze clocking 6:33.42s.</p>.<p>The silver was just the preview of the things to come as the gruelling men's coxed eight event saw a keen tussle between China and India before the latter finished second with a time of 5:43.01s, which was 2.84s behind the host team, which clocked 5:40.17.</p><p>The Indian men's coxed-eight team comprised Neeraj, Nareskh Kalwaniya, Neetish Kumar, Charanjeet Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Puneet Kumar and Ashish.</p>.<p>Indonesia, who clocked a time of 5:45.51s were third.</p>.<p>The achievement is all the more creditable given that rowers from powerhouse Uzbekistan and Japan finished fourth and fifth respectively.</p><p>In the coxless pair event, India Babulal Yadav and Lekh Ram had to settle for bronze with a time of 6:50.41 sec, behind gold medallists Hong Kong, China (6:44.20 sec) and Uzbekistan 6:48.11.</p>.<p>India has sent a huge contingent of 33 rowers at the continental games.</p><p>Arvind, following his exploits in lightweight doubles sculls, said the pair was aiming for gold but an injury setback two months back had hampered training.</p><p>"We missed training for 20 to 25 days as I was having lower-back pain two months back. Otherwise, we would have won the gold medal," said Arvind.</p>.<p>He added that their next target will be to aim for glory at the 2024 Paris Olympics.</p><p>"We will now work for the Paris Olympics and then try to win gold at the 2026 Asian Games." Arvind credited his quick recovery to his physiotherapist.</p><p>"I did recovery-related exercises and our physiotherapist prepared me very well to regain strength. He helped me recover in one month," added Arvind.</p>.<p>His team-mate Arjun too said that they had the gold medal on their mind when they started the race.</p><p>"Gold was the target but we did our best. Our coach told us to just do our best. We could not do our (personal) best of 6:19, which we did at our Army nodal centre in Pune," said Arjun.</p>.<p>On the reason they fell back after taking a sizeable lead around the 500m mark, Arjun said, "We pushed hard and did our best today."</p>