Asian Games Day 6 Live Updates: Balraj Panwar ends 4th in rowing; wushu gold medal chance coming up

Sep 24, 2026 05: 33 AM IST. Asian Games 2026, Day 6 Live: Rowing update.

Key points

• Balraj Panwar ends just outside the medal places in Men's Single Sculls with a time of 6: 54.80.
• Satnam Singh and Salman Khan are next in action for India in the men's double sculls event at the Nagaragawa International Regatta Course.
• Asian Games 2026, Day 6 Live: What was the controversy in rowing?
• Mihir Vasavda, The Indian Express' man on the ground in Nagoya covering the Asian Games, writes.
• Heartbreak for Balraj, who was in silver medal spot until the final 500 metres of his race and was overtaken by the Uzbek and the Japanese rower.

Satnam Singh and Salman Khan are next in action for India in the men's double sculls event at the Nagaragawa International Regatta Course. Sep 24, 2026 05: 20 AM IST. Asian Games 2026, Day 6 Live: Rowing update.

Another fourth place finish for India! Balraj Panwar ends just outside the medal places in Men's Single Sculls with a time of 6: 54.80.

Heartbreak for Balraj, who was in silver medal spot until the final 500 metres of his race and was overtaken by the Uzbek and the Japanese rower. Here are his split timings. 500m: 1: 37.65 (second spot). 1000m: 3: 18.55 (second spot). 1500m: 5: 01.90 (second spot). 2000m: 6: 54.80 (fourth place). Here's a look at the final timings! Sep 24, 2026 05: 18 AM IST. Asian Games 2026, Day 6 Live: Six man field in rowing.

So Balraj Panwar has five other contenders in his single sculls event, the biggest challenger being China's Zhiwei Deng and Uzbekistan's Shakhboz.

Can he cut through the water and the elite field and start us off with a medal? Sep 24, 2026 05: 12 AM IST.

For context, a series of last-minute crew changes in India's men's rowing team has triggered a controversy, with players saying a top federation official cautioned them that their "future would be ruined" and even informed them to return to India if they didn't agree to the new teams.

Denying any "heated conversation", the Rowing Federation of India (RFI) president, Balaji Maradapa, blamed "outside forces" for the crisis. He remarked they needed to change the teams as the rowing competition had been shrunk to two days.

For context, the confrontation came on the eve of the rowing competition at the Asian Games. It began in Gifu on Wednesday.

In practice, the rowers' anger centred on the decision to break up established crews just two days before the competition, with athletes moved between events and reserve rowers brought into first-team combinations.

For instance, the quartet of Babulal Yadav, Jaswinder Singh, Nitin Kumar and Yogesh Kumar were selected for the men's four team initially and had trained together for the past six months. Nevertheless, Jaswinder and Nitin were removed, and replaced by Saurav Kumar and Vipul Ghurde. Sep 24, 2026 05: 09 AM IST. Asian Games 2026, Day 6 Live: Rowers start us off!

Balraj Panwar of India will be the first athlete in action for India. And he has a chance of starts off day 6 for India with a gold in Rowing Men's Single Sculls event. The event's starting shortly! Sep 24, 2026 04: 41 AM IST.

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