Para Asian Games: India secures silver, bronze in para-archery team events
Oct 25, 2023
Hangzhou [China], October 25 : India's great run at the Para Asian Games in Hangzhou continued as women's doubles compound team and men's doubles recurve team secured a silver and bronze on Wednesday.
The women's doubles compound duo of Sheetal and Sarita won a silver medal in open event.
India lost to China by 152-150 in the gold medal match. It was a tightly-fought game with a very little difference between both teams in four sets. India managed to win the set three by a point and had seven tens in comparison to nine tens by China.
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In the men's double recurve open event, the pair of Harvinder and Sahil won a bronze medal by beating Thailand in the bronze medal clash. India won the clash by 6-0 and did not let Thailand win even a single of the three sets played. Thailand hit zero tens but India had three.
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India has won 50 medals so far, consisting of 13 gold, 17 silver and 20 bronze medals. India has two silver and a bronze in para-archery.
India's performance in 2018 games at Indonesia, which earned them 15 gold, 24 silver and 33 bronze and a total of 72 medals, is their best so far.
The fourth edition of Para Asian Games will take place from October 22-28.
