Sarita Devi gained a bronze, whereas India can be assured of at the very least two silver medals with Rakesh Kumar and Sheetal Devi coming into the finals of their occasions in the Para Asian Archery Championship right here on Monday.
Sarita acquired the higher of Jyoti Baliyan 139-135 in an all-Indian bronze playoff in the ladies’s compound open part.
Fresh from successful the Para Asian Games gold, Sheetal overcame Sarita 143-138 in an all-Indian semifinal to make the gold medal conflict in the ladies’s compound open class.
Sheetal will tackle Singapore’s Nur Syahidah Alim who defeated Jyoti 150-138 in the opposite semifinal.
Rakesh assured India of one other silver advancing into the lads’s compound open ultimate.
Rakesh pipped Yuya Oe of Japan 143-142 in the final 4 match.
India may even be trying so as to add to their six quotas (4 compound and two recurve) for Paris Paralympics from the qualifying occasion that may start right here from November 23.
India, nonetheless, did not win any medal in recurve part with Tokyo Paralympic bronze medallist Harvinder Singh making a pre-quarterfinal exit.
Harvinder went down 5-6 in a shoot-off end towards Tomohiro Ueyama of Japan in the lads’s recurve part.
Vivek Chikara misplaced 2-6 to second-seeded Chinese participant Jun Gan in the last-eight spherical.
In ladies’s recurve, second-seeded Pooja made a last-eight exit, enduring a 0-6 loss to Selengee Demberel of Mongolia.