Asian Games: Vishnu Saravanan slipped to second place, Neha to third place in the table

Hangzhou. Former Olympian Vishnu Saravanan slipped to second place in the men’s dinghy event while Neha Thakur finished third in the women’s individual dinghy event at the Asian Games here on Saturday. On Friday, Saravanan was running first in the 13-man competition. He was ranked fifth in the seventh race, which dropped him to second place. There will be five more races in the Olympic qualifying event.

Olympic quota will be available in three more events – sailing men’s kite, IQ foil and laser radial. Netra Kumanan finished third in the seventh race of the Women’s Single Dinghy-ILCA6, ending the day in fifth place. Jerome Savarimuthu finished seventh in the men’s windsurfing-icufoil event. In the men’s kite event, Chitresh was at seventh place in the table. KAC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar won the seventh race of the Men’s Skiff-49er Pair, finishing the day in fourth place.

Advait Menon finished seventh in the men’s dinghy-ILCA4 event. Women’s skiff-49er pair of Sheetal Verma and Harshita Tomar were in fourth place and four more races are left in their category. Preeti Kongara and Sudhanshu Shekhar finished fifth in the mixed dinghy-470 pair event. Inder Dofade and Ramya Saravanan finished third in the mixed multihull-NARCA17 pair. Abad Ali finished fourth in two consecutive races in the men’s Windsurfer:RS:X event, leaving him in fourth place with four more races left. Ishwarya Ganesan finished the day in fourth place in the women’s windsurfer:rs:x event.

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