India bagged five medals including two gold, two silver and one bronze on the penultimate day of the Stage three of World Archery Para Series in Ahmedabad today, with the men’s teams winning the top honours.
Reigning world champion Toman Kumar and Shyam Sundar Swami clinched the gold medal in the Men’s compound team event with a dominant win over Iraq’s Abbas Kadhim and Anwer Aldawod, 152-139.
Men’s duo of double Paralympic medallist Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sundi overcame Slovakia’s David Ivan and Denis Ivan 6-2 to bag the yellow metal in recurve team title.
The women’s recurve team of Bhawna and Pooja settled for silver after going down 0-6 to Chinese pair in the final. Swati and Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari finished runners-up in the Mixed Team W1 (recurve/compound) event, taking Silver. Swati then claimed bronze in the individual W1 category, defeating Russia’s Elena Krutova, 6-2.
However, India missed out on a bronze in the women’s compound team event, with Sheetal Devi and Payal Nag losing their third-place playoff to China’s Wang Huiting and Gao Fangxia.
