Jharkhand dominated the final day proceedings at the 34th National Archery Championship at JRD Tata Sports complex as Deepika Kumari shot gold in the individual Olympic round recurve women event on Wednesday beating V Praneetha of Gujarat in the final. With this Deepika also became the national
champion for the sixth time on the trot. Top-ranked Deepika and Olympian Jayanta Talukdar of Jharkhand also won the recurve mixed team event defeating Sanjay Boro and Mainaw Narzary (Assam) 151-139. The bronze medal went to lovejot Singh and Mdhu of Punjab. In the men’s individual recurve Olympic round event Atanu Das of PSPB won gold beating MR Tirkey of SSCB. Gurucharan Besra of Bihar finished third. In the recurve women team event, hosts including Deepika Kumari, Reena Kumari, Sita Rani Tudu and Asha Rani Horo again dominated as they beat Punjab. West team finished third.
In the individual Olympic round of compound women Jhano Hansdah of Jharkhand and Rajat Chouhan of Rajasthan in men’s category shot gold to become national champions. Jharkhand finished top of the table with 10 gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze making it 17 while SSCB with nine medals were second on the list followed by Punjab with eight medals.