Winnipeg [Canada], August 24 (ANI): Indian archer Chikitha Taniparthi etched her identify into the historical past e book by clinching the Under-21 girls’s compound crown on the World Archery Youth Championships 2025 in Winnipeg, Canada.
Chikitha’s medal-winning success was India’s first-ever archery gold medal on this class on the Youth World Championships. Throughout the knockout phases, the 20-year-old Indian archer put up her stellar type on exhibition, in accordance with Olympics.com.
In the semi-finals, she hardly broke a sweat and breezed previous Spain’s Paula Diaz Morillas 142-133. In a carefully contested last, she held her nerve within the gold medal conflict towards Park Yerin of the Republic of Korea, and prevailed with a 142-136 victory.
In the quarter-finals, the sport went proper right down to the wire, with Chikitha digging deep to defeat compatriot and 2023 senior Asian champion Parneet Kaur 146-143.
In the U18 compound occasions, India thrived with dominant performances. In an all-Indian girls’s semi-final, Prithika Pradeep edged out Surya Hamsini Madala 130-128, earlier than dropping by a whisker towards America’s O’Donohue Savannah by 143-140 within the last to accept silver.
The U18 males’s competitors noticed Yogesh Joshi fall 136-132 to New Zealand’s Hector McNeilly within the semi-finals. In the bronze medal match, Joshi fought arduous however misplaced 143-139 to Chinese Taipei’s Yen Tzu Hsiang and returned empty-handed from the competition.
India additionally settled for a silver medal within the U18 combined compound workforce occasion, the place Prithika and Mohit Dagar have been overwhelmed 150-149 by the American pair of O’Donohue Savannah and Caleb Quiocho within the last.
The Indians had led 37-34 after the opening set, however the Americans upped the ante and clawed their means again to savour glory by a single level.
India sits in third on the medals desk with a complete of six (three gold, two silver and a bronze). The US (4 gold, one silver, 5 bronze) leads the medals desk with South Korea (three gold, 4 silver, one bronze) in second. (ANI)