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Indians do well

JAMSHEDPUR: Indian archers won 15 of the 16 gold medals on offer on the second day of the three-day second South Asian archery championship at the JRD Tata Sports Complex here on Saturday.

Nepal won the other gold.

In the FITA round competition where the archers shot 144 arrows over four distances — 90, 70, 50 and 30 in the men’s section and 70, 60, 50 and 30m in the women’s section — Prem Prasad Pun was the lone foreign archer to stop a clean sweep by the Indians.

Pun took the 30m distance gold medal.

For V. Pranitha (women’s recurve) and National champion Namita Yadav (women’s compound), it was a clean sweep of all the four gold medals.

The results: FITA round recurve: Men (Indians unless mentioned): 90m: 1. A. Raju 309 points, 2. Prem Prasad Pun (Nepal) 301, R. Basumatary 295; 70m: 1. A. Raju 333, 2. Tashi Peljor (Bhutan) 321, 3. R. Basumatary 315. 50m: 1. A. Raju 334, 2. Anurag Kamal 325, 3. Tashi Peljor (Bhu) 322; 30m: 1. Prem Prasad Pun (Nep) 348, 2. A. Raju 346, 3. R. Basumatary 343. Women: 70m: 1. V. Pranitha 317, 2. Dolma Dorji (Bhu) 299, 3. Balmai Hansda 295; 60m: 1. Pranitha 331, 2. Nisha Rani Dutta 315, 3. Dolma (Bhu) 309. 50m: 1. Pranitha 329, 2. Dema Dorji (Bhu) 296, 3. Dolma (Bhu) 292; 30m: 1. Pranitha 342, 2. Dolma (Bhu) 335, 3. Dema (Bhu) 327. Compound: Men: 90m: 1. Deepak Karmakar 327, 2. Sanjay Swansi 322, 3. Dil Kumar Gurung (Nep) 221; 70m: 1. Renso Purty 333, 2. Swansi 333, 3. Gurung (Nep) 260. 50m: 1. Swansi 334, 2. Karmakar 332, 3. Gurung (Nep) 272; 30m: 1. Karmakar 351, 2. Swansi 351, 3. Gurung (Nep) 319. Women: 70m: 1. Namita Yadav 336, 2. Asrita Kerketta 322; 60m: 1. Namita 342, 2. Babita Bisoi 331; 50m: 1. Namita 327, 2. Babita 324, 3. Sunetra (Sri Lanka) 231.