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India are C'wealth archery champions
Published on Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 18:58 in Sports section
Tags: Archery, India , Jamshedpur
Jamshedpur: India emerged champions in the Second Commonwealth Archery Championship in Jamshedpur on Saturday bagging five gold, two silver and one bronze.
Out of the eight gold medals at stake in the competition, India came up trumps in recurve and compound individual women, recurve and compound team event and recurve men's team event. Australia and New Zealand finished second and third respectively.
The Australians grabbed gold in the compound men's team event and individual men's recurve section, whereas New Zealand secured gold in individual men's compound division to claim third spot.
England finished fourth with four silver and as many bronze medals.
The Indian dominance in the championship continued on Saturday with ace archer Jhanu Hansda and SAF games gold medallist Dola Banerjee clinching gold in the individual women compound and recurve divisions respectively.
While Hansda shot with perfection to top with 111 points defeating her teammate Manjhudha Soy (103), Banerjee defeated England's Naomi Folkard in individual recurve women's section.
Athens Olympic bronze medallist Alison Williamson (England) finished third in the recurve while compatriot Linda Garner bagged the bronze with 111 points in the compound.
In the individual women's recurve division, Banerjee beat Naomi Folkard and Alison Williamson (both England) in a tie-breaker after they finished equal on 103 points.
Australian archer Chris Lewkowski hit bull's eye to claim the gold in individual men's recurve section. Scotland's Simon Needham finished second followed by India's Mangal Singh.
The Australian men's team scored 225 to bag the gold in the compound event while India (212) secured silver and England had to be satisfied with the bronze medal.
In the women's recurve team event, India scored 201 to bag the gold while England (200) secured the silver and Scotland the bronze.
The Indian team topped the charts in the women's compound team event also by securing 215 points followed by England's 208.
India also bagged the men's recurve team event beating England in the final 215-214. Scotland had finished third in both the events on Friday.
Jharkhand Sport and Culture Minister Bandhu Tirkey gave away the prizes to the winning team and also announced cash awards for upcoming archers from the tribal belt of the state - Paltan Hansda, Prabhat Kandir, Sweety Kumari, Nibha Kerketta and Ravindra Hembram.
The minister also announced that ace archer Jhanu Hansda will be appointed as Deputy Director in the Sports and Culture department.
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