Jharkhand wins one gold, two silver on day 2 of Senior National Archery

Jamshedpur, Oct 3: Jharkhand archers bagged one gold and two silver medals in the Indian Round on day two of the Senior National Archery Championship, held at Archery Ground, JRD Tata Sports Complex in Jamshedpur on Sunday, October 3. Jharkhand’s total medal tally has climbed to five medals including two gold and three silver.   

Goldi Mishra and Ritu Kumari of Jharkhand won gold medal in mixed doubles match on Sunday. on Digambar and Natasha of Maharashtra bagged silver medal while Hiraboi Singh and Rajpyari Devi of All India Police claimed bronze. Jharkhand girls bagged a silver medal in the team event while gold medal went to Manipur. Team Maharashtra won the bronze medal. In the boys’ team event, Services won gold, All India Police claimed silver while team Manipur received bronze medal.

In girls’ individual event, Pallavi Boro of All India Police Sports Control Board won gold medal, Jharkhand’s Anku Kumari bagged silver while Manipur’s Onobi claimed bronze.

The action-packed event will have Indian Round, Compound and Recurve National (men & women). Senior National will be conducted in three phases with Indian Round event from October 2-3, followed by Compound event from October 5-6 and Recurve (Olympic) event from October 8-9.

The Senior National is of immense importance as the top 16 rank holders in Recurve Men, Recurve Women, Compound Men and Compound Women categories will be picked from this championship for the final trials to be held on October 10 and 11 at Jamshedpur. This will be the basis of Indian team’s selection for Asian Archery Championship, Dhaka.