KOLKATA: A day after the Indian junior compound archers completed a fabulous winning run, the recurve archers too rose to the occasion to add five gold and three bronze medals to the country’s medals tally on the concluding day of the World Youth Archery Championship in Wroclaw, Poland on Sunday.
The compound archers ended their campaign on Saturday with three gold, one silver and two bronze medals, making it their best-ever performance in the meet.
Overall in recurve and compound sections, India just claimed eight gold, one silver and five bronze medals in their best-ever showing at the event.
Komalika Bari became the second recurve woman from India to hold the under-18 and the under-21 world titles after she claimed the junior individual title beating Canales Elia of Spain 7-3 in the final.
The Jharkhand girl achieved the feat exactly 10 years after her statemate Deepika Kumari completed that double in Legnica, which was incidentally just one hour away from this venue in Poland.
Bari earlier claimed another gold when she paired up with Parth Sushant to win the junior mixed team title overcoming the challenges of Spanish duo of Elia and Sanchez Yun 5-3 in the final.
However, Bari, Tisha Punia and Tanisha Verma missed out on a bronze losing 1-5 to Ukraine in the women’s team final.
India claimed the cadet mixed team title too when Bishal Changmai along with Tamnna got past their French rivals 6-2 in the summit clash.
The top-seeded cadet men’s team of Changmai, Amit Kumar and Vickey Ruhal subdued their French rivals 5-3 to claim another gold for India.
The junior men’s team of Parth, Aditya Choudhary and Dhiraj Bommadevara too finished on top of the podium beating Spain 5-3 in the final.
Earlier Changmai ended up picking up his third medal after he overcame Zhangbyrbay Dauletkeldi of Kazakhstan 6-4 in a five-setter tussle for the individual bronze medal.
Tamnna too claimed two medals as she teamed up with Avani and Manjiri to win bronze in cadet women’s team event beating their German opponents 5-3. Manjiri went on to clinch her second bronze when she defeated Quinty Roeffen of the Netherlands 6-4 in the individual category.
