Para Asian Archery C’ship 2023: India’s compound teams win three gold; Rakesh, Sheetal shine

Indian men, women and mixed compound team won gold at the Para Asian Archery Championship in Bangkok on Wednesday.

India’s Sheetal Devi(L) and Rakesh Kumar in action. | Photo Credit: AFP

Indian men, women and mixed compound team won gold at the Para Asian Archery Championship in Bangkok on Wednesday.

Rakesh Kumar won hat-trick of golds in the men’s individual compound event, men’s and mixed team events.

Medal haul in Bangkok.🥇🥇🥇
Rakesh Kumar takes three golds at the Asian Para Championships and is the new CHAMPION. 🏆#ParaArchery#ArcheryAsia#archery@india_archerypic.twitter.com/oQRRbOaEAW

— World Archery (@worldarchery) November 22, 2023

Sheetal Devi, who won two gold medals in the women and mixed team event pairing with Jyoti and Rakesh, managed to bag just a silver in the women’s individual compound event after losing to Nur Alim Syahidah of Indonesia in a close encounter that led to a fierce shoot-off.

Gold Hat-Trick for India. 🥇🥇🥇
The mixed team duo adds another medal at the Asian Para Championships.#ParaArchery#ArcheryAsia#archerypic.twitter.com/DRiu7kw89S

— World Archery (@worldarchery) November 22, 2023

The shoot-off score resulted in yet another tight score of 10 with the Indonesian being the closest to the centre.

The recurve men and women’s team and the men’s W1 team have won silver after losing their respective finals.

Asian Para Archery Championships 2023 India medal tally-

Gold-

Compound Men Open Team: Rakesh Kumar & Suraj Singh

Compound Women Open Team:  Jyoti Baliyan & Sheetal Devi

Compound Open Mixed Team: Rakesh Kumar & Sheetal Devi

Compound Men Open: Rakesh Kumar

Silver-

Recurve Women Open Team: Pooja Jatyan & Pooja Khanna

Recurve Men Open Team:  Harvinder Singh & Vivek Chikara

Men W1 Team: Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari & Naveen Dalal

Compound Women Open: Sheetal Devi

Bronze-

Compound Women Open: Sarita