Asian Games: Pranab Bardhan and Shibhnath Sarkar win bridge gold for India

JAKARTA

: India won a gold medal in the

bridge

competition of the 18th Asian Games with Bardhan and Shibhnath Sarkar clinching the top honours in the men's pair event, on Saturday.


The 60-year-old Pranab and 56-year-old Shibhnath finished at the top after scoring 384 points in the finals.

The Chinese pair of Lixin Yang and Gang Chen won the silver with a score of 378 and the Indonesian combination of Henky Lasut and Freddy Eddy Manoppo bagged the bronze scoring 374 here.

Another Indian pair of Sumit Mukherjee and Debabrata Majumder finished at the ninth place with a score of 333.