Bajrang Lal Takhar

Bajrang Lal Takhar
Medal record
Competitor for  India
Rowing
Asian Games
2010 Guangzhou Single Sculls
2006 Doha Single Sculls
2014 Incheon Men's Eight

Bajrang Lal Takhar (Hindi: बजरंग लाल ताखर) (born 5 January 1981 in Sikar district, Rajasthan) is an Indian rower who won the first individual rowing Gold medal for India at the 2010 Asian Games held in Guangzhou. Takhar is a Naib Subedar in the Rajputana Rifles regiment of the Indian Army.

Rowing career

Bajrang Lal won the first individual rowing silver medal for India at the 2006 Asian Games held in Doha [1] He contested in the men's single sculls rowing event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but failed to reach the finals. He finished with a rank of 21.

He then went on to bag gold at the Asian Championships in Korea last year 2007. He won the quota place by winning gold at the Asian qualifying championships in Shanghai. [1]

He has won two gold medals in the single and double scull races in South Asian Games 2006.

In November 2010, he won the first individual rowing Gold medal for India at the 2010 Asian Games held in Guangzhou.

Awards

Rowing records of Takhar

External links

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.zeenews.com/news461184.html
  2. Dainik Navjyoti
  3. "Padma Awards". pib. January 27, 2013. Retrieved January 27, 2013.
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