Indian archers rule the roost in ranking round

Kolkata: Indians archers swept all the top places in the ranking round of the fourth Asian Grand Prix at the SAI, Eastern Centre in Salt Lake here today.Olympian Mangal Singh Champia topped the men`s recurve event with a score of 679 points out of 720. Rahul Banerjee was second with 678 while Tarundeep Rai, competing as an individual entry, occupied the third spot, relegating Jayanta Talukdar to the fourth spot. Young Rimil Buriuly was the best among the recurve women with a score of 651 points. She was followed by two individual entries, Vardhineni Pranitha (649) and Laxmi Rani Majhi (638). Two other Indian team members, Dola Banerjee (634) and Reena Kumari (626) were fourth and fifth respectively. Archers shot 36 arrows twice over 70m distance in the ranking round. The Indians` domination in the compound section was complete with the top-three places belonging to them. Kh. Ratan Singh, out of the Indian team for this meet after a dismal performance at the 45th World Championship at Ulsan, showed what he was capable of by ranking first in the mens compound event with a score of 694. Bureau Report