Asian archery: Indians dominate ranking round

Indian archers swept all the top places in the ranking round of the fourth Asian Grand Prix archery tournament at the SAI,Eastern Centre here on Thursday.

Olympian Mangal Singh Champia topped the mens recurve event with a score of 679 points out of 720. Rahul Banerjee was second with 678 while Tarundeep Rai,competing as an individual entry,occupied the third spot relegating Jayanta Talukdar to the fourth spot.

Young Rimil Buriuly was the best among the women in the recurve section with a score of 651 points. She was followed by two individual entries,V Pranitha (649) and Laxmi Rani Majhi (638). Two other Indian team members,Dola Banerjee (634) and Reena Kumari (626) were fourth and fifth respectively.

Indians eye indoor challenge
For the first time,Indian archers will participate in an indoor competition at the international level when they take part in the 3rd Asian Indoor Games to be played in Hanoi from October 30 to November 8.

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