Asian Games: India women's archery team storm into finals of Women’s compound archery

Indian archer's trio of Jyothi Vennam, Aditi Swami, and Parneet Kaur secured a place in the finals defeating Indonesia's trio in the women's team compound archery event of Asian Games, on Thursday.

Hangzhou:Indian archer's trio of Jyothi Vennam, Aditi Swami, and Parneet Kaur secured a place in the finals defeating Indonesia's team in the women's team compound archery event of the ongoing Asian Games here on Thursday.

The trio broke little sweat to storm past Indonesia 233-219 on their way to book their berth in the finals at the Asian Games. They will now face the Chinese Taipei trio in a gold Medal match later today.

Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, and Parneet Kaur got off to a good start with a perfect 30 in the first round while the Indonesian team managed to score only 27. Indian archers took a formidable lead of 9 points to wrap up the END 1 with 60-51 points.

India continued their dominance in the game as they collected 29 points in the first half and the second half of the End 2 where the Indonesian pair settled on identical scores. The scoreline was well in India's favour after End 2 with 118-108.

Indonesian Archers were desperately looking to cut down India's lead but only managed to register 10,9 and 8. Meanwhile, India gets 28 in its first three attempts. Whereas In the second half, Indonesia gets 28 while India gets 29. With a formidable performance by archers, they made sure that they would not let the opposition come closer in the End 3 with a score of 175-163 leading by 12 points.

The last End, End 4 was a cakewalk for the Indian women. A 12-point lead with 1 end remaining. Indonesia starts the final end with three 9s. Jyothi Surekha gets a rare eight as the first half of the final ends comes to an end, India got 28 points.

Earlier, the Indian trio defeated Hong Kong comfortably in the semifinal match by 231-220 points.

On Wednesday, Jyothi Surekha Vennam earlier won gold in the compound mixed pair gold with her teammate Ojas Deotale. Her hunger for medals is yet to satiate and wants to complete a hat-trick of yellow metals at the Hangzhou showpiece, reported PTI.

"This is my first gold medal in the Asian Games so I'm really happy," said Jyothi here after winning the compound mixed pair gold with teammate Ojas Deotale.

For the 27-year-old, this was a first Asian Games gold medal in her third appearance.

"We also have the team finals tomorrow (Thursday), and I am in the individual finals. I'm looking forward to taking two more golds," she was quoted as saying.

Jyothi outing in the mixed event final was nothing short of flawless she shot all perfect scores from her eight arrows as she along with Deotale downed second-seeded South Korean pair So Chaewon and Joo Jaehoon 159-158.

"Korea are a very strong team and we knew that we were going to have a very tough fight. We were focused on fighting until our last arrow."

"It will really boost archery in India. Archery has been gaining a lot of attention. This gold in compound means a lot for us," she said. (with PTI inputs)