Doha: Indian sailor Rajesh Choudhary picked up a bronze in the Asian Games yachting regatta when he finished third in the Laser Radial Open event with 33 net penalty points in Doha on Tuesday.
Rajesh Choudhary and second-placed Koh Seng Leong of Singapore finished with the same net penalty points, but Seng took the silver on the basis of finishing first in three of the 12-race competition as compared to the Indian's two.
Rajesh, who came in fourth in the last race held on Monday, finished behind China's gold medal winner Xu Lijia (31 net) and Leong.
Archery
Indian challenge in the Asian Games individual archery events came to an end with its two top archers Jayanta Talulkar and Mangal Singh Champia being eliminated in the quarter-finals at the Lusail Range in Doha on Tuesday.
Both the Indian archers won their first rounds but could not match their quarterfinal opponents in skill and concentration as the team finished their individual events without a single medal on a wind-swept day at the range.
Talukdar, billed as a medal prospect before leaving for Doha, lost to China's Wang Gang 102-108 and Champia went down to Japan's Wakino Tomakazu by a 98-102 margin.
The Chinese archer was in devastating form as he fired four perfect 10's in the first round in which he had an impressive scoreline of 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 9 for a score of 58. His performance dipped a little in the second round in which he could manage a score of 50.
Talukdar, who won a gold medal in the world championships in Porec, managed decent scores of 52 and 50 in the two rounds but his effort was not enough to pose a threat to Wang.
"Wind always affect archers. Sometimes it is an advantage, sometimes a disadvanatge. Today it did not help me," Talukdar said.
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