HANGZHOU: Playing in windy and rainy conditions, the Indian team of Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur and Siranjeet Kaur defeated Vietnam to win a bronze medal for India in the Recurve Women’s Team competition in the Asian Games on Friday.
With the conditions making it difficult to control the arrows, the archers still managed to get so,e good scores to make a comeback and claim the bronze medal after they had lost to the Republic of Korea in the semifinals.
In the match to decide the bronze medal, the Indians won the first set 56-52 but their opponents came back to win the second 56-55. In the third set, the Indian girls shot three 10s and three 9s for a score of 57 while Vietnam had two 9s, three 8s, and one 7 as they scored 50.
Both teams were erratic in the fourth and final set with the arrows landing in sixes and sevens. The Indians shot two 10s, one 9, two 8s, and one 6 while their opponents had managed only one 10, one 9, three 7s, and 8 for a total of 48, India thus winning the match 6-2 on set points. IANS
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