Indian rowers kept their hopes alive in five events of the rowing championship at the Nakdong river. In the women’s single sculls, Manjula Rai finished third while Gurpreet Kaur in light weight single scull also have a chance to make it to the event proper.Mujeeb Rehman, Ratheesh Kumar, Saji Thomas and Kasam Khan in men’s light weight four oars without coxwain and Jincymol Verghese and Rajan Sobhni in light weight double sculls finished fourth and last but have an open chance for progressing further in the event. Likewise, Roshan Lal, R K Pillai, Udaybir Singh, Jenil Krishnan, Inder Pal Singh, Sunil Kakde, Kudrat Ali, P T Paulose and K V Sajith will be fighting for qualification in the men’s eight oars with coxwain event tomorrow.
