World Youth Archery Championships: Indian recurve archers win four golds

The Indians also gathered three bronze medals in the country’s best ever showing at the event.

Published : Aug 15, 2021 19:46 IST , WROCLAW

Recurve junior men's team title winning archers: (from left) B. Dhiraj, Parth Salunkhe and Aditya Choudhary at the World Youth Archery Championship.
Recurve junior men's team title winning archers: (from left) B. Dhiraj, Parth Salunkhe and Aditya Choudhary at the World Youth Archery Championship.
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Recurve junior men's team title winning archers: (from left) B. Dhiraj, Parth Salunkhe and Aditya Choudhary at the World Youth Archery Championship.

Indian recurve archers celebrated Independence Day in style by collecting multiple gold medals in the World Youth Archery Championships here on Sunday.

The Indians also gathered three bronze medals in the country’s best ever showing at the event.

The cadet men’s team, comprising Bishal Changmai, Amit Kumar and Vickey Ruhal, beat France 5-3 to emerge as the champion.

READ : World Youth Archery Championships: India makes clean sweep of compound cadet team titles

Bishal joined hands with Tamanna to defeat Japan 6-2 for the cadet mixed team title.

Parth Salunkhe, Aditya Choudhary and B. Dhiraj helped India rally to beat Spain 5-3 and win the junior men’s crown.

The Indian duo of Salunkhe and Komalika Bari got the better of Spain 5-3 to claim the junior mixed team gold.

 

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