In a rollicking start, Indian rowers powered their way to two silver and a bronze medal in the Asian Games here on Sunday.

On a pleasant morning with the conditions just perfect for rowing at the Fuyang Water Sports Centre, Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh opened the country’s account with a silver medal in the men’s lightweight double sculls event.

The Indian duo clocked 6:28.18 seconds to finish behind China’s Junjie Fan and Man Sun, who won gold with 6:23.16.

The Uzbekistan pair of Shakhzod Nurmatov and Sobirjon Safaroliyev bagged the bronze clocking 6:33.42s.

The silver was just a precursor of the things to come as the gruelling men’s coxed eight event saw a keen tussle between China and India before the latter finished second with a time of 5:43.01, which was 2.84s behind the host team, which clocked 5:40.17.

Indonesia, who clocked a time of 5:45.51s, were third.

The Indian men’s coxed-eight team comprised Neeraj, Nareskh Kalwaniya, Neetish Kumar, Charanjeet Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Puneet Kumar and Ashish. Then, in the coxless pair event, India’s Babulal Yadav and Lekh Ram settled for a bronze with a time of 6:50.41, behind Hong Kong (6:44.20 sec) and Uzbekistan 6:48.11.