Asia Cup Archery: India bag three gold, one bronze
Sulaymaniyah: Indian archers were all on target, bagging three gold and a bronze to open their account at the Asia Cup Leg 2 here on Tuesday. It all began with Parneet Kaur, Aditi Swami and Saskhi Chaudhary clinching India’s first gold medal of the continental meet, defeating Kazakhstan 204-201. The men’s team of Prathamesh Fuge, […]
Sulaymaniyah: Indian archers were all on target, bagging three gold and a bronze to open their account at the Asia Cup Leg 2 here on Tuesday.
It all began with Parneet Kaur, Aditi Swami and Saskhi Chaudhary clinching India’s first gold medal of the continental meet, defeating Kazakhstan 204-201.
The men’s team of Prathamesh Fuge, Rishabh Yadav and Jawkar Samadhan then followed it up with India’s second gold when it downed Bangladeshi counterparts 224-218 in a lopsided final.
Samadhan also went on to bag his second medal when he overcame Sergey Khristich of Kazakhstan 147-145 in a tight bronze playoff.
Samadhan’s bronze medal gave India a clean sweep in the compound men’s individual section where Prathamesh Fuge and Rishabh Yadav will battle for the gold medal on Wednesday.
India bagged a third gold in the compound mixed team event when the duo of Fuge and Parneet Kaur downed Kazakh duo of Adel Zhexenbinova and Khristich 158-151.
On the concluding day on Wednesday, Indian archers are in the hunt for seven gold, two silver and one bronze medal.
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