Asian Games: Indian men's, women's teams bag bronze in roller skating

With the timings of 4:34.861 minutes, the Indian women managed to secure a bronze medal while the gold medal went to Chinese Taipei (4:19.447 minutes) and the silver to South Korea (4:21.146 minutes).

The Indian men's and women's team that secured bronze medals in 3000m roller skating team relay events. (Photo | SAI Media Twitter)

HANGZHOU: Indian roller skaters clinched two bronze medals in men's and women's 3000m team relay events to match their best-ever performance at the Asian Games here on Monday.

The women's team of Sanjana Bathula, Karthika Jagadeeswaran, Heeral Sadhu and Aarathy Kasturi Raj opened India's account on the ninth day of competitions, finishing with a timing of 4:34.861s.

The Indian quartet finished behind gold medallists Chinese Taipei (4:19.447) and South Korea (4:21.146).

Aryanpal Singh Ghuman, Anandkumar Velkumar, Siddhant Kamble and Vikram Ingale then sealed a second bronze with a timing of 4:10.128 in the men's team relay.

Chinese Taipei (4:05.692) and South Korea (4:05.702) took the top two spots.

Indian roller skaters had won two bronze medals at the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games in men's free skating and pairs skating events.