Kolkata, May 25, 2009
Indian won three gold and four silver medals at the second Asian Grand Prix archery meet at Tehran on Saturday.
According to information received here on Monday, the men’s recurve team of Tarundeep Rai, Muni Ram Tirkey and Kapil, won the gold medal beating Iran 217-211 in the final. Punya Prabha, V. Pranitha and Reena Kumari brought out the best in the women’s recurve team final defeating Iran 198-194 in the final.
Compound archer L. Haridas Singh earned India the third gold medal in the individual event when he annihilated Hungary’s Robert Bojti in the tie breaker after the two tied 109-109 in the final. Singh shot a 10 as against Bojti’s 9 in the tie-breaker.
However, the men and women compound teams lost to Iran in the final. The men lost 220-227 and the women went down 207-208. Olympian Tarundeep Rai, perhaps the most experienced in the field, could get only a silver medal losing to Iran’s Milad Vaziri Teymoorlooei at 107-108 in the men’s recurve individual event final.
Compound women archer Sweety Kumari too failed in the final going down to Seyedeh Vida Halimian Avval of Iran 102-108 to settle for silver.
Tirkey and Sushma (both individual recurve) lost to Nadar M. and Zahara Nemati of Iran respectively in the bronze medal play-off. All other medals went to host Iran which emerged the best in the four-day tournament attended by six nations and 60 archers.
Source: Indian Archery Association press release
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