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Indian soldiers win first World Rowing Cup gold
Indian soldiers Havildars Lakshay and Ujjwal Kumar Singh won India’s first gold medal at a World Rowing Cup on 27 June 2026. The medal came at World Rowing Cup Stage 3 in Lucerne, Switzerland, in the Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls (LM2x) event.
World Rowing Cup
The World Rowing Cup is an annual international rowing series organised by World Rowing, the international federation for the sport. The series includes multiple stages held at different venues, and athletes compete in boat classes such as single sculls, double sculls, and coxless fours.
Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls
Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls, abbreviated as LM2x, is a rowing event in which two rowers compete in a sculling boat. In sculling, each rower uses two oars, and lightweight categories apply body-mass limits fixed by World Rowing regulations.
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World Rowing Cup
The World Rowing Cup is an annual international rowing series organised by World Rowing, the international federation for the sport. The series includes multiple stages held at different venues, and athletes compete in boat classes such as single sculls, double sculls, and coxless fours.
Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls
Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls, abbreviated as LM2x, is a rowing event in which two rowers compete in a sculling boat. In sculling, each rower uses two oars, and lightweight categories apply body-mass limits fixed by World Rowing regulations.