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India finished second! Harvinder Singh’s double gold leads nine-footed in the Asian Para Championship

Harvinder Singh of India (Photo by Steif Chamber/Getty Image)

Harvinder Singh, World No. 1 and Paralympics Champion, won two gold medals at the Beijing 2025 Asian Para Archery Championship on Sunday, stood second in the medal standing behind India China.India ended with three gold, three silver and three bronze medals, while China topped with ten gold, four silver and three bronze medals.Singh achieved an individual best best and set a new 663 -point record record in Recurve men’s qualifying round. He won his first gold at the Recurve Open Mixed Team event with Teammet Bhavana.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!He claimed his second gold on the last day in the Recurve Mains Open title, completing a successful three-foot-foot campaign.In the final of the Recurve Open Mixed team, Harvinder and Bhavna defeated the Zeehan singing of China and the June anthem by 5-4 (14-8), when the sing missed the shoot-off.Harvinder dominated the Recurve Mains Open final against Thailand’s Hanrechai Netasiri, leading to India’s third gold medal.Sheetal Devi and Jyoti’s women’s compound team won the gold by defeating China’s Lu Zhang and Jing Jhao 148–143, in which Zhang was missing at the end.

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Harvinder and Vivek Chikara earned silver in the open doubles of recurve men, losing 4-5 (17–18) in a shoot-off for China’s June anthem and Luxyu Zhao.Rakesh Kumar and Shyam Sundar Swamy took silver in the open doubles of the compound men, which the Chinese team scored 10 in the last end after losing to China’s AI Shinliang and Yichng Zhang 155-156.At the Compound Open Mixed Team event, Rakesh Kumar and Jyoti won silver by losing Jing Jhao and AI Shinaliang of China 150–153.Pooja and Bhavana won the bronze in the Open doubles of Recurve women with a 6–2 win over Indonesia.Naveen Dalal and Nurudin claimed bronze in men’s W1 doubles, defeating Kazakhstan 18–15 to tie both teams at 131.Jyoti, third seed, defeated Indonesia’s Taudora Audi Ayudia Ferli 144–133 to complete her tournament with bronze in the open category of compound women.

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