Indian rower Dattu Bhokanal qualifies for Rio Olympics 2016

Indian rower Dattu Baban Bhokanal today qualified for the Rio Olympics. He won a silver in the men's single sculls event at the FISA Asian and Oceania Olympic Qualification Regatta at Chung-ju in South Korea. The 25-year-old army man clocked 7 minutes and 07.63 seconds in the 2 km course to finish second. The top seven in the finals qualify for the Rio Games. Bhokanal is from Maharashtra's Nashik district and took up rowing after he joined the army.