Dattu Bhokanal bows out of Rio 2016 Olympics after finishing 15th

Rio de Janeiro: Indian rower Dattu Baban Bhokanal finished fourth in the quarter-finals of the men’s single sculls to be out of medal reckoning in the Rio Olympic Games in Rio on Tuesday. [caption id=“attachment_2945356” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] India’s Dattu Bhokanal at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Getty[/caption] Bhokanal finished 4th in Quarterfinal 4 and finished 15th overall. The top 12 were eligible to qualify for the semifinals. Bhokanal 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. Croatia’s Damir Martin, the London Olympics silver medallist, won the quarterfinal with a far superior timing of 6:44.44, ahead of second-placed Alan Campbell (6:49.41). Armyman Bhokanal, whose ailing mother is in an Intensive Care Unit of a hospital in India, had clocked 7:21.67s in the Heats. He commenced strongly and was second going past the 500metre mark but then gradually slowed down to lose his chance of advancing. Bhokanal, the lone rower in fray from India, will now have to fight for the minor placings.