Asia Cup 2023: India end campaign with seven medals

NEW DELHI: India finished the Asia Cup 2023 archery stage 3 in Singapore with seven medals — six silvers and one bronze — on Saturday.

India’s Parth Salunkhe won a silver in the individual recurve men’s event while Ruma Biswas also finished second in the individual recurve women’s category on the final day of the continental archery event.

In the individual recurve men’s gold medal match, Parth Salunkhe lost 2-6 to Qi Xiangshuo of China in the final.

En route to the final, the 19-year-old Parth eliminated Won Sung Tin, Uzbekistan’s Amirkhan Sadikov and Bangladesh’s Mohammad Hakim Ahmed Rubel and Wang Dapeng of China.

Meanwhile, in the individual recurve women’s final, Ruma Biswas went down to China’s An Qixuan 2-6 to settle for the silver medal. On the way to the final, Ruma Biswas beat Hussa Yaqoub Ahmed Alawadhi of the UAE, Great Britain’s Kim Lavender and Han Sol of the Republic of Korea, Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhi of Vietnam and Qiu Muyan of China.

On the other hand, the Indian men’s trio of Parth Salunkhe, Rohit Kumar and Juyel Sarkar settled for the silver medal in the recurve team events after a 5-1 defeat to the Chinese team of Qi Xiangshuo, Li Zhongyuan and Wang Dapeng in the gold medal match. IANS

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