Archery World Cup: India wins compound women, men team gold

India men’s and women’s compound teams won gold medals at the ongoing Archery World Cup Stage 1 in Shanghai on Saturday.

 

India’s Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami and Parneet Kaur dropped just four points to trounce Italy 236-225 in the women’s compound team event to open their account with a gold in the season-opening global showpiece.

 

Abhishek Verma, Priyansh, and Prathamesh Fuge from the men's team went one step better, missing just two points en route to defeating the Netherlands’ Mike Schloesser, Sil Pater, and Stef Willems 238-231.

 

The women’s team, who qualified as the top seed, dropped just four points from 24 arrows to down sixth-seeded Italy.

 

Jyothi, Aditi and Parneet missed the perfect ten only twice in the first three ends of six arrows each to take a handsome 178-171 lead over Marcella Tonioli, Irene Franchini and Elisa Roner.

 

In the fourth end, the Indians dropped two points, but it did not matter much as they nailed the gold with an 11-point margin.