World No. 1 Indian archer Sheetal Devi on Monday entered the compound ladies’s last on the World Archery Para Collection in Sabarmati Riverfront, Ahmedabad on Monday.
In an all-Indian semifinal, the armless archer from Jammu defeated Sarita 145-143 to e-book her place within the gold medal conflict, the place she’s going to face Aizada Seidan of Kazakhstan.
Sarita will even have one other alternative so as to add to India’s medal tally when she’s going to tackle Wang Huiting of China within the bronze medal match.
Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sundi defeated China’s Xia Lei and Zhu Wenjian 5-1 to enter the ultimate of the para recurve males’s workforce occasion and ensure one other medal for India. The Indian duo will face third-seeded Slovakia within the gold medal conflict.
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India additionally booked a spot within the last of the para recurve ladies’s workforce occasion after Bhawna and Pooja defeated their Iranian counterparts 6-2. They’ll face China within the gold medal match.
India confirmed a 3rd medal within the recurve blended workforce occasion when Harvinder and Bhawna defeated Indonesia’s pairing 6-0 in straight units to e-book their place within the last. The Indian duo will face China within the gold medal conflict.
The compound males’s workforce of Shyam Sunder Swami and Toman Kumar additionally assured India one other medal by advancing to the ultimate. Swami and Toman beat China’s Bao Yirui and Feng Yue 154-153 and can face seventh-seeded Iraq within the gold medal match.
The compound ladies’s workforce of Sheetal Devi and Payal Nag narrowly missed out on a spot within the last after dropping to Kazakhstan 151-152. They’ll now face China within the bronze medal match.
India additionally misplaced a intently fought compound blended workforce shoot-off towards China after the 2 sides had been locked at 156-156. The shoot-off was tied 20-20, with China advancing after profitable on the premise of the arrow being nearer to the centre.
Within the W1 blended workforce (recurve/compound) occasion, Swati Chaudhary and Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari received the higher of China’s Jin Huan and Yang Xupeng 6-2 to enter the ultimate and ensure one other medal for India. They’ll face one other Chinese language pair within the last.
India’s para-archer Harvinder Singh, fourth left, and others compete in the course of the World Archery Para Collection.
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India’s para-archer Harvinder Singh, fourth left, and others compete in the course of the World Archery Para Collection.
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Within the W1 males’s workforce occasion, India completed third among the many three competing groups. China and Czechia will combat for the gold medal.
Within the compound males’s part, reigning world champion and world primary Toman Kumar misplaced to prime seed Ken Swagumilang of Indonesia 146-144 within the semifinal and can combat for the bronze medal towards Abbas Kahdim of Iraq.
Earlier, Swagumilang ended the marketing campaign of Gurwinder Singh within the quarterfinals, with the Indian dropping 141-143.
India’s marketing campaign ended within the W1 males’s part after fifth seed Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari and ninth seed Nurudin misplaced their respective quarterfinal matches.
Adil misplaced to Czechia’s a number of Paralympics-medallist David Drahoninsky 5-6 (8-10) within the shoot-off, whereas Nurudin went down 2-6 to prime seed Yang Xupeng of China.
The ladies, however, stored India’s hopes alive within the W1 ladies’s part, with second-seeded Indian Swati Chaudhary set to combat for the bronze medal. Swati misplaced to sixth seed Liu Jing of China 1-7.
(With PTI inputs)
Revealed on Sep 07, 2026