India bagged two gold, two silver and one bronze on the penultimate day of the World Archery Para Collection (Stage III) right here on Tuesday, with the lads’s compound and recurve groups successful the highest honours and Swati Chaudhary grabbing two medals.
Reigning world champion Toman Kumar and Shyam Sundar Swami gained the lads’s compound crew gold with a 152-139 victory over Iraq, whereas Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sundi rallied previous Slovakia 6-2 for the lads’s recurve crew title.
The ladies’s recurve crew of Bhawna and Pooja added a silver after shedding to China 0-6, whereas Swati and Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari completed runners-up within the Blended Staff W1 (Rec/Comp) occasion.
Swati then returned within the afternoon session to assert bronze within the particular person W1 class, defeating Russia’s Elena Krutova whereas competing beneath the Particular person Impartial Athlete (AIN) flag, 6-2.
India additionally missed out on a bronze within the girls’s compound crew occasion, with Sheetal Devi and Payal Nag shedding their third-place playoff to China.
Swami and Toman clinched the gold medal within the males’s compound crew occasion with a dominant win over Iraq’s Abbas Kadhim and Anwer Aldawod.
The Indians made a gradual begin, scoring an 8 within the opening finish, however rapidly discovered their rhythm. They dropped simply 5 factors over the following 12 arrows to determine a commanding lead.
Swami and Toman maintained their scoring consistency thereafter, with their correct arrow execution leaving Iraq with little room for a comeback.
Harvinder and Sundi fought again from an opening-set deficit to defeat Slovakia’s David Ivan and Denis Ivan 6-2, successful the match 34-37, 36-31, 38-34, 35-31.
India struggled initially, with a 7 and no 10 within the opening set, permitting Slovakia to take an early benefit.
However the Indian crew rapidly settled into its capturing rhythm with Harvinder, a double Paralympic medallist, main the restoration.
The turning level got here within the third set when India shot three 10s to take a 4-2 lead.
It held its composure within the fourth set to finish the comeback and safe gold.
Bhawna and Pooja completed with the silver medal after shedding to China 0-6 (23-34, 33-35, 30-31) in a one-sided ultimate.
The Indian crew struggled to search out its scoring rhythm from the opening set, capturing 4, 5 and 6. It improved within the second set with three 8s and a 9, however couldn’t shut the hole.
India once more struggled within the third set, recording a 5 and a 7, and didn’t register a ten all through the ultimate as China comfortably sealed the gold.
Swati and Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari gained silver within the Blended Staff W1 (Rec/Comp) occasion after shedding to Czech Republic’s Sarka Pultar Musilova and David Drahoninsky 1-5 (31-38, 33-37, 33-33).
The Czech crew took the opening two ends to determine a 4-0 lead.
India fought again to attract the third finish, however couldn’t power the competition right into a deciding stage because the Czech Republic secured gold.
The W1 (Rec/Comp) class is a specialised para-archery class for athletes with extreme bodily impairments.
W1 archers compete from wheelchairs and might use both a recurve or compound bow in the identical occasion.
The combined crew format options one male and one feminine archer from the identical nation.
Swati then returned within the afternoon session to assert her second medal of the day, defeating Elena 6-2 within the W1 bronze-medal contest.
Swati gained the opening finish 28-25, earlier than the following two ends had been tied 27-27 and 26-26.
She then produced a decisive ultimate finish, successful 26-24 to clinch the bronze.
The end result thus gave Swati a silver and bronze on the identical day.
In the meantime, Sheetal and Payal narrowly missed out on a medal within the girls’s compound crew occasion after shedding the bronze-medal playoff to China’s Wang Huiting and Gao Fangxia.
The Indian pair struggled to take care of scoring consistency throughout their 16 arrows and couldn’t produce the high-scoring ends wanted to remain in rivalry.
Their finest passage got here within the second finish, once they had been just one level behind at 73-74. Nonetheless, a poor third finish allowed China to take the bronze medal.
Revealed on Sep 08, 2026