Abhishek Verma poses along with his silver medal within the podium.© Archery Affiliation of India
India’s Abhishek Verma bagged silver within the Males’s Particular person ultimate on the Asian Archery Championships 2021 on Thursday in Dhaka. The 32-year previous bowed out of the event after shedding to the Korean archer Kim Jongho by 148-149. That is Abhishek’s second Asian championship, as he earlier received Bronze within the males’s workforce occasion. The sport went all the way down to the wire as each the archers stored on combating until the final minute. Verma went down within the very spherical as he was capable of seize 29 whereas Jongho took 30.
Nonetheless, all the subsequent rounds went for a draw and the sport ended with Abhishek shedding by one level.
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Earlier within the day, India’s Jyothi Surekha Vennam clinched gold within the ladies’s compound ultimate after defeating former world champion Oh Yoohyun by 146-145.
Alternatively, Rishabh Yadav and Jyothi Surekha Vennam settled for silver. The Korean pair of Kim Yunhee and Choi Yonghee defeated the Indians by a slim margin of 155-154.
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