Iranian archers win four medals in Bangkok cup
Iranian archers have exhibited praiseworthy performances at the second stage of the 2015 Indoor Archery World Cup in Thailand, picking up four medals.
On Friday, Iran’s Parisa Rouhanian competed in the final match of the girl’s junior recurve section in the Thai capital, Bangkok, and scored most of the points to stand on the top of the podium and earn the valuable gold medal.
Her compatriot, Niloufar Alipour, finished as the runner-up and snatched the silver.
Also in the women’s youth recurve division, Maryam Karaminejad Ranjbar earned the Islamic Republic of Iran a bronze medal.
Separately, in the men’s youth recurve section, Shervin Asadzadeh received a silver medal.
Recurve competitions of the second stage of the 2015 Indoor Archery World Cup were staged in Bangkok on December 11.
The event brought together some 50 archers from a number of countries, among them Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Mongolia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, China, Denmark, India.
Male and female athletes took part in boy’s children, girl’s children, boy’s junior, girl’s junior, men’s youth and women’s youth divisions.
On August 15, Iran’s 39-year-old athlete Esmaeil Ebadi competed in the men’s individual compound section of the 2015 Archery World Cup in the western Polish city of Wroclaw, and scored 145 points to claim the silver medal.
Abhishek Verma of India received the gold medal with a total score of 148 points.
Iran’s compound mixed pair of Ebadi and Afsaneh Shafiei earned the country a second silver, when they faced opponents from Denmark and went down 149-154.
The 2015 Archery World Cup was the 10th edition of the annual Archery World Cup, organized by the World Archery Federation.
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