Hangzhou: Ace Indian compound archer Jyothi Surekha Vennam grabbed a hat-trick of gold after winning gold by beating South Korea's Chaewon So 149-145 in the archery women’s individual compound event to give India its 23rd gold at the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou on Saturday.
This is India's record 10th medal in archery, the country's best-ever performance at the Asian Games. In the Incheon edition in 2014, India won one gold, one silver, and one bronze medal.
Jyothi, who had already secured gold in mixed pair and women's team events, made it three in a row when she rallied to defeat her formidable South Korean opponent So Chaewon 149-145.
yothi has now aggregated a total of three gold medals, including archery compound women's team and mixed team compound archery medals.
"I feel short of words and lots of emotions are going through. I need some time to give this a thinking," Jyothi said.
With this third gold medal, she has become the most successful Indian participant at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou on Saturday.
Jyoti started with two scores of 10s and a nine while the Korean shot three 10s in the first round (called as Ebd in archery and comprises three arries shot by each archer). But in the second end, the Korean shot an eight besides two 10s for a score of 28 while Jyothi scored 30 to take 59-58 lead. The Indian shot three perfect rounds of 30 in each of the three rounds while her Korean opponent could manage three 29s, thus securing the gold for India.
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