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Sheetal Devi and Toman Kumar win mixed team gold, Suvarna Raj takes discus title
India added two golds and a historic archery silver on the fourth day of the Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya, pushing their medal count past 70.
Key points
- Sheetal Devi and Toman Kumar beat Indonesia 151-148 in the compound mixed team final.
- Suvarna Raj won the women's F54 discus with a fifth-round throw of 15.66 metres.
- Swati Chaudhary took silver in the W1 event, India's first medal in that class at the Games.
Sheetal Devi and Toman Kumar turned their world-record ranking round into gold on Thursday, beating Indonesia 151-148 in the compound mixed team final at the Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya.
The Indian pair led by a point after the first end and stretched the gap to four, 77-73, at the halfway stage. Indonesia won back a point in the third end, but the final end finished level at 38-38 and India held on for a three-point win. It completed a week in which the pair had opened with a mixed team world record of 1,402 in qualifying.
Suvarna Raj’s winning fifth throw
The second Indian gold of the day came in the stadium, where Suvarna Raj won the women’s F54 discus. Her fifth attempt, measured at 15.66 metres, was the best of the competition, ahead of Iran’s Shahla Hadidi on 15.45 metres and Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Ngoc Thuy, who threw 14.65 metres for bronze.
A first silver for Swati
Debutant Swati Chaudhary lost the women’s individual W1 archery final to China’s Sen Mengcan but went home with silver, India’s first medal in the W1 class at the Asian Para Games. She had reached the final by beating Korea’s Lee Eunhee on Tuesday.
India also picked up seven bronze medals on the day, taking their total past 70 after they started the morning on 62, with 14 golds.