Rio de Janeiro, Aug 13:
Indian rower Dattu Baban Bhokanal, who was already out of the medal reckoning, today finished 15th in overall rankings in the men’s single sculls at the Rio Olympic Games here today.
He stood first in the final ranking race with a time of 6:54.96, which was best among the four races he participated in the Games.
Bhokanal finished ahead of five other competitors — Hungary’s Bendeguz Molnar Petervari, Rosso Brian of Argentina, Memo of Indonesia, Korea’s Kim Dongyong and Jhonatan Esquivel of Uruguay.
Earlier, Bhokanal had clocked 6:59.89 to cover a distance of 2000m, little more than six seconds behind the third and last qualifier from the quarterfinal 4, Natan Wegrzycki-Szymczyk (6:53.52) from Poland. (PTI)
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