Winnipeg [Canada], August 22 (ANI): The India Under-18 girls’s recurve workforce bagged the bronze medal on the World Archery Youth Championships 2025 in Winnipeg, Canada, on Thursday, as per Olympics.com.
The Indian trio of Gatha Anandrao Khadake, Jiana Kumar and Sharvari Somnath Shende delivered a dominant efficiency to defeat the USA 6-0 within the bronze medal match.
Seeded fourth, the Indian workforce obtained a bye within the opening spherical earlier than registering a complete 6-0 win over Mexico within the second spherical. In the quarter-finals, they edged previous Japan 5-3, however fell quick towards the Republic of Korea within the semi-finals, dropping 6-2.
In the boys’s U18 recurve class, Agastay Singh, Soham Sharad Kanase and Aditya Shivprasad Pawar narrowly missed out on a podium end, taking place 5-3 to Turkiye within the bronze medal conflict.
India stays in competition for extra medals within the compound archery occasions. On Saturday, the U21 males’s workforce of Kushal Dalal, Apar Mihir Nitin and Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru will battle Germany for gold, whereas the U18 trio of Mohit Dagar, Yogesh Joshi and Devansh Singh face the USA within the title match.
The World Archery Youth Championships 2025 is the nineteenth version of the biennial meet that has been held since 1991. A complete of 570 high youth archers from 63 international locations world wide are vying for medals in Winnipeg, as per Olympics.com.
India had dominated the earlier version held in Limerick, Ireland, in 2023, securing six gold medals, together with three in particular person occasions, and topping the general medal tally with 11 medals.
Aditi Swami had gained the ladies’s U18 crown, whereas Parth Salunkhe and Priyansh claimed the U21 males’s titles in recurve and compound classes, respectively. (ANI)