Patna, May 21, 2009
The 16-member Indian archery contingent made a clean sweep by occupying the top positions in all the four categories – Recurve men and women and Compound men and women – on the opening day of the second Asian Grand Prix archery tournament at Tehran on Wednesday.
According to a press release of the Indian Archery Association, the Indian men’s recurve team, comprising MR. Tirkey, Tarundeep Rai and Kapil totalled 1967 points to take the first place after competitions were held in two 70m distances as qualifying round in which each archer had to shoot 36 arrows over 70m twice for a total of 720 points.
Tirkey’s 659 points was the best among Indians and was followed by Rai (658) and Kapil (650). Fourth member K. Shivshankar scored 614.
The Indian trio of Reena Kumari (641), V. Pranitha (619) and Punya Prabha (613) helped the Indian women team to reach 1873 point which gave it the top spot. The fourth member Sushma came up with 600 points.
In the men’s compound section, M. Chinglensana Luwang (686), L. Haridas Singh (683) and Amrinder Singh (674) enabled India top with 2043 points. Fourth member Arun Sharma scored 662.
In the women’s section, Manjudha Soy (658), Vrushali Gorle (638) and Sakro Besra (637), who formed the team, enabled India take the top spot with 1933 points. Sweety Kumari, who was the fourth member, scored 656.
Archers from six countries, host Iran, Iraq, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Nepal and Hungary are in the competition of the four-day meet. This is the second of the five Grand Prix series planned by the Asian Archery Federation. New Delhi is set to host the fourth of the series in September.
Source: Indian Archery Association press release
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