Delhi lad Priyansh shot nicely below strain to emerge because the compound males’s particular person champion within the Nationwide archery championships on the M.A. Stadium in Jammu on Saturday.
The 19-year-old, positioned twentieth within the rankings with 696, beat a formidable Prathamesh Fuge 150-149 within the semifinals and bought the higher of C. Srither within the last through a sensational shoot-off.
Priyansh and Srither scored an equivalent 144. Each hit the ‘X’ within the shoot-off, however Priyansh was declared the winner as his arrow was nearer to the centre.
World championships medallist V. Jyothi Surekha defeated seasoned archer Trisha Deb 148-143 within the final 4 earlier than getting previous the younger Priya Gurjar 146-143 within the last to retain the ladies’s particular person gold medal.
The Delhi pair of Abhishek Verma and Aishwarya Sharma beat Maharashtra’s Prathamesh Jawkar and Aditi Swami 156-154 within the blended crew title conflict.
The outcomes:
Compound: Particular person: Males: Last: Priyansh (Del) bt C. Srither (Aru) 144-144 (10*-10); Third place: Prathamesh Fuge (Mah) bt Okay. Venkatadri (AP) 147-147 (10-9).
Ladies: Last: V. Jyothi Surekha (PSPB) bt Priya Gurjar (Raj) 146-143; Third place: Avneet Kaur (Pun) bt Trisha Deb (RSPB) 143-142.
Staff: Combined: Last: Delhi bt Maharashtra 156-154; Third place: Punjab bt Madhya Pradesh 156-153.
