India's Sawan Bawal won the country's first marathon medal at the Asian Games since 1982. (Sony LIV screengrab)Sawan Barwal on Saturday finished second in the men’s Marathon on Saturday to record India’s fourth medal in the event at the Asian Games and a first since the 1982 edition.FOLLOW | Asian Games LIVE Day 8Sawan also lowered his own national record, clocking 2:11:36 in Aichi Nagoya. Earlier in April this year, he became the first-ever Indian to go sub 2 hours 12 minutes, lowering the 48-year-old national record of Shivnath Singh at the Rotterdam Marathon.Sawan, who was competing in his second marathon of the career, finished behind Japan’s Ichitaka Yamashita.Click here to read our Asian Games full coverageThe 29-year-old Yamashita became the seventh Japanese athlete to win the gold medal in the event and the first one to do it on the home soil after he clocked 2:10:51.Yamashita always had the lead over Barwal and entered the stadium to a raucous support from his home crowd and finished with a gold medal.List of India’s marathon medallists at Asian Games1951: Chhota Singh — Gold (2:42:58.6 s)1951: Surat Singh Mathur — Bronze (2:53:49.8 s)1982: Hosur Kukkappa Seetharan — Bronze (2:25:07 s)2026: Sawan Barwal — Silver (2:11:36 s)MORE TO FOLLOW