National Archery: Top Indian archers, including Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari, made first round exits as Sukhchain Singh clinched the senior recurve men’s title to lead a Services clean sweep in the National Ranking tournament, here on Sunday. Follow InsideSport.IN for more updates
National Archery: Sukhchain Singh Clinches Recurve Title
The 25-year-old Army Sports Institute archer Sukhchain, who has a world ranking of 218, created the biggest upset of the day when he eliminated India No. 1 Atanu Das 6-4 in the round of 16.
Das’s Tokyo Olympics teammates Tarundeep Rai and Pravin Jadhav also made first round exits, going down to Dhiraj Bommadevara and Sachin Gupta in shootoffs.
In the final, Singh defeated his Services teammate Rahul Nagarwal 6-2, while Dhiraj won the third place playoff defeating veteran Jayanta Talukdar.
National Archery: Sukhchain Singh Clinches Recurve Title