Indian men’s compound team comprising of Abhishek Verma, Chinna Raju Srither and Amanjeet Singh clinched the gold medal at the Archery World Cup at Shanghai on Saturday. Colombia took the silver medal in the event while USA finished third.
Verma, Srither and Singh had progressed to the final after getting the better of USA’s Reo Wilde, Steve Anderson and Braden Gellenthien 232-230 in a closely-fought semifinal.
They had got past Iran in the quarter-finals in another closely-fought, winning 232-230 and in the first round, their battle had been no different but they held their nerves to win 226-225.
However, Indian recurve archers, including Olympians Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari, had cut a sorry figure as they bowed out of their respective events early.
The Men’s recurve team lost to Japan 0-3 in the quarterfinals while women’s recurve team, seeded sixth, made a first round exit after being beaten 2-6 by USA.
In the mixed pair bronze medal match, Verma and Jyothi with take on the USA. The duo lost to second-seeded Korea 152 -158 in the semis.
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