Indians make clean sweep of archery events, bag both team Gold

Colombo, Aug 26 (UNI) The afternoon bout of shower could not dampen the spirit of the Indian archers and continuing their hegemony in the 10th SAF Games, they picked up both the men and women team recurve Gold medals at the Colombo Gymkhana Club here today.

Earlier, Dola Banerjee and Jayanta Talukdar had won the individual recurve Gold in two all-Indian finals yesterday.

In the team event, the men's team, consisting of Jayanta Talukdar, Tarundeep Rai, Rahul Bannerjee and N Ravinder, beat Sri Lanka 212-201 in the semifinals to storm into the summit clash with Bhutan.

Here too, the Indians proved head and shoulder above their rivals and beat their opponents from Bhutan 220-196 with consummate ease to bag the Gold. Bangladesh got Bronze in the event.

The women's team event also proved a lop-sided affair with the Indian squad, comprising Dola Bannerjee, Reena Kumari, Laxmi Rani Majhi and Sushma, thrashing Bangladesh 200-163 in the semifinals before taking on Bhutan in the final.

Again, the archers from Bhutan proved no match for their illustrious Indian counterparts who went on to win the final 211-192. Sri Lanka eves ended with the Bronze.

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