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Payal Nag, the world’s archetypal quadruple amputee archer, stunned her grooming spouse and World champion Sheetal Devi 139-136 to clinch the compound women’s rubric astatine the archetypal World Archery Para Series successful Bangkok connected Saturday.
The 18-year-old Payal, who trains astatine the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board Sports Complex, took an aboriginal 27-25 pb earlier Sheetal, an armless archer, levelled the people astatine 54-54. But a gritty Payal fought backmost to found a three-point pb and triumph gold. Payal had upset Sheetal successful the last of the National para archery championships successful Jaipur past year.
In a tract featuring archers from 9 countries successful the World Para Series, India finished astatine the apical with 16 medals, including 7 gold, 5 metallic and 4 bronze. Indians bagged 3 medals connected the ground of qualification rankings. Swati Chaudhary and Anju Tanwar (946) won metallic successful W1 women’s doubles, portion Swati and Adil Ansari (1119) took W1 mixed squad silver. In W1 men’s doubles, Adil and Vinayak Breed (1209) earned bronze.
The results: Gold-medal match: Recurve men’s doubles: India (Harvinder Singh, Vijay Sundi) bt Chinese Taipei (Li Bing-yu, Tveng Lung-Hui) 6-2; compound men’s doubles: India (Toman Kumar, Shyam Sunder Swami) bt Chinese Taipei (Wu Chung-Hung, Yang Jyun-Kai) 153-146; compound women’s doubles: India (Sheetal Devi, Payal Nag) bt Kazakhstan (Zhanat Aitimova, Aizada Seidan) 150-147; compound mixed team: India (Sheetal Devi, Toman Kumar) bt Indonesia (Teodora Ferelly, Firmansyah Arif) 153-146; recurve women: Bhawna bt Phattharaphon Pattawaeo (Tha) 6-0; compound men: Toman Kumar bt Jonathon Mile (Aus) 146-142; compound women: Payal Nag bt Sheetal Devi 139-136; Para recurve men: Kholidin (Ina) bt Harvinder Singh 7-3; W1 women: Kim Ok Geum (Kor) bt Swati Chaudhary 7-3.
Bronze: Recurve women’s doubles: India (Bhawna, Rajshri Rathod) bt Japan (Miki HAruno, Onodera Asako) 6-0; recurve mixed team: India (Bhawna, Vijay Sundi) bt Slovenia (Ziva Lavrinc, Dejan Fabcic) 5-4 (19-17); compound men: Shyam Sunder Swami bt Rakesh Kumar 146-142; W1 women: Lee Eunhee (Kor) bt Anju Tanwar 6-2.
