Archery, World Cup Shanghai: Indian compound archers sweep all three team event gold medals

The Indian compound archery contingent had a successful outing at the 2024 Archery World Cup Stage I in Shanghai on Saturday with four gold medals and a silver medal in the five events.

The women’s team of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Gopichand Swami and Parneet Kaur won gold in the women’s final, beating Italy 236-225. The men’s team of Abhishek Verma, Priyansh and Prathamesh Fuge beat the Netherlands 238-231 to win gold in their final.

Then, Verma and Vennam combined to beat Estonia 158-157 in the mixed team final.

Vennam secured her third gold medal in Shanghai when she beat Mexico’s Andrea Becerra in a thrilling shoot-out after the latter shot a 9 in her final arrow to draw 146-146 in the women’s compound individual gold medal match.

Priyansh won his first-ever World Cup medal after he lost 147-150 to Austria’s Nico Wiener in the men’s compound individual gold medal match.

Vennam, Swami and Kaur had qualified as the top seed to face off against Italy in the women’s team final. The trio missed the perfect 10 score just twice in the first three Ends to lead 178-171. Then the Indian women’s team dropped only two points in the fourth End, but it did not matter much as the top...

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