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Jayant Talukdar, Ranu record upset wins

By Our Sports Reporter

HYDERABAD, APRIL 6. Jayant Talukdar sprang a surprise on Olympian Satyadev Prasad to clinch the honours in the men's recurve event on the final day of the National ranking archery circuit tournament for men and women at Lal Bahadur Stadium here on Wednesday.

In women's recruve, Ranu of Uttar Pradesh also caused an upset by beating Olympian Dola Banerjee of Tata Academy to win the first prize.

Everything went according to the script in the compound bow section with Naresh Damor (ITBP) winning the title ahead of Sanand Mitra of Jharkhand, with only four points separating them (110-106).

In women's section, Jhanu Hasda of Jharkhand kept her reputation intact by logging 107 points to the 104 scored by Sakro Besra.

In the men's recurve event, it was Satyadev, winner of silver medal in the World junior championship recently, who looked good in the first round with a score of 29 compared to 28 by Jayant.

The second and the third rounds saw both of them score identical scores of 27 and 28 each. In the fourth round, Jayant picked up 29 points to 26 by Satyadev to seal the issue.

Satyadev, who was scheduled to catch the evening flight back home for his marriage (scheduled after a couple of days), was slightly off colour in crunch time.

In women's recurve event, Ranu stunned Dola primarily because of a better first-round score of 28-23. Though Dola led 27-26 and 28-26 in the second and third rounds, a one-point lead in the final round (28-27) helped Ranu clinch the honours (108-105).

Naresh had a much more easier outing in men's compound bow category logging 27, 29, 28 and 26 points in the four rounds compared to the scores of 27, 27, 25 and 27 by Sanand.

But the star attraction was clearly the new world record-holder in 70m women's compound, Jhanu Hasda. Recovering from a slightly dismal start in the first round when she trailed 25-26 and again in the third round when she was behind 27-29, Jhanu slipped into a perfect groove to record scores of 28-26, 27-23 in the third and fourth rounds to emerge a clear winner (107-104).

With the hosts arranging drum-beaters to make the archers adapt to the loud cheering, there was lot of excitement in the crowd and the beating of drums went on even when the archers were shooting.

Mr. Anil Kamineni, Secretary General of Archery Association of India, informed that all the semifinalists in the four events have qualified for the European tour starting in the first week of May.

They are:

Men's recurve: Jayant Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee, Satyadev Prasad, Vishwas.

Women's recurve: Dola Banerjee, Ranu, Laxmi Rani, Chakravolu Sworu.

Men's compound: Naresh Damor, Sanand Mitra, Syed Shareefuddin, N.Arun Kumar.

Women's compound: Jhanu Hasda, Sakro Besra, Swati, Bansara Lin Dhar.

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