The Indians lost two points on the fourth end, but it made little difference because they won by 11 points.
On Saturday, the Indian men’s and women’s compound teams had strong performances to earn gold medals at the Archery World Cup Stage 1 in Shanghai. India’s Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, and Parneet Kaur defeated Italy 236-225 in the women’s compound team event to win gold in the season-opening global extravaganza.The men’s team of Abhishek Verma, Priyansh, and Prathamesh Fuge improved one step further by missing only two points in defeating the Netherlands’ Mike Schloesser, Sil Pater, and Stef Willems, 238-231.
The women’s team, who qualified as the top seed, lost only four points from 24 arrows to sixth-seeded Italy.
Jyothi, Aditi, and Parneet missed the perfect ten only twice in the first three ends of six arrows each, leading Marcella Tonioli, Irene Franchini, and Elisa Roner by 178-171 points.
The Indians lost two points on the fourth end, but it made little difference because they won by 11 points.
The men’s team, which qualified as the fourth seed, defeated their Dutch opponents with a near-perfect performance.
They started with a perfect round of 60 and dropped only two points over the next two ends before securing the victory with another perfect 60 in the last set of six arrows.
