Kumari, a veteran in the World Cup Finals with four silver medals, came out on top in the shoot-off.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
Ankita Raina and top seeds men's doubles pair of Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan assured India of at least a couple of bronze medals in the tennis competition by progressing to the semifinals at the Asian Games, in Palembang, on Wednesday.
India's 572 athletes hope to return home with an overflowing treasure chest of medals.
Virat Kohli sent the shutterbugs into a clicking frenzy as he received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award
Flag bearer Tek Chand will lead the Indian contingent -- India will be represented by 54 para athletes, the biggest ever contingent in the history of the Games.
The proposals of six para-athletes, who are training in India and abroad ahead of the Asian Para Games that will take place between October 6 and 13 in Jakarta, were also cleared at the meeting.
The Indian archery team ended their campaign in the World Championships without any medal after the compound mixed team lost to United States in the bronze medal play-off at Belek, Turkey on Saturday.
A strong Indian archery contingent will look to grab all the 10 gold medals on offer when they open their campaign with the qualification round in the 12th South Asian Games at the Jawaharlal Sports Complex Polo Ground on Friday. Former world No 1 and India's Olympic medal hope Deepika Kumari will lead the country's charge in the women's recurve section along with another Olympian in Laishram Bombayla Devi, who will be joined by Madhu Vedwan and Laxmirani Majhi who won the national ranking final last month. Asian Games silver medalist Tarundeep Rai will look to defend his title in the individual recurve section, which will also have the experience of Jayanta Talukdar besides the youngster duo of Binod Swansi and Gurucharan Besra.
Bhavinaben Patel scripted history on Friday, becoming the first Indian table tennis player to secure a medal in the Paralympics after entering the semi-finals with a stunning straight-game win over world No. 5 Borislava Peric Rankovic of Serbia in the women's singles Class 4 event, in Tokyo. The 34-year-old won her quarter-final 11-5, 11-6, 11-7 in 18 minutes.
India emerged champions in the second Commonwealth Archery championship bagging five gold, two silver and one bronze medals.
Indian archers entered the final round in individual recurve and compound as well as team events, at the Commonwealth Archery Championships.
In a mixed day for Indian archery, the recurve section saw a thumping performance but the compound section was a big letdown, in the Commonwealth Games competition at Yamuna Sports Complex in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The senior recurve and compound teams could not board the flight to Medellin in Colombia and were forced to pull out of the season-opening stage one of the World Cup beginning on Monday.
Five Indians made it to the medal round in the individual section of the second Asian Grand Prix archery tournament in Tehran. Olympian Tarundeep Rai (men's recurve), L Haridas Singh (men's compound) and Sweety Kumari (women's compound) moved into the final on Friday, while Muni Ram Tirkey (men's recurve) and Sushma (women's recurve) reached the bronze medal play-off.
India has been battling a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced many countries to ban travellers from India.
The men's team won the compound gold and a silver and bronze medal in the recurve event at the 14th Asian Archery Championships.
Top-ranked women recurve archer Deepika Kumari of Jharkhand created two national records in the FITA round on the opening day of the 34th Senior National Archery Championship at JRD Tata Sports Complex in Jamshedpur.
A day after the recurve archers put up a creditable show, national champion Chinna Raju Srither shot 1385 points in the men's compound section the highest by any Indian -- in the ongoing Archery World Cup Stage-I in Santo Domingo. Riding on the four-distance (90m, 70m, 50m and 30m) total of 1385 points, Srither figured 10th in the points tally, on Thursday.
At a time when his former teammate Sawaiyan Majhi has been appointed Indian recurve coach, the 33-year-old would look to bring his playing career back on track with a second medal from the Asian Games in Indonesia.
Rahi Sarnobat beat all expectations to become India's first woman shooter with an Asian Games gold and the low-profile wushu players delivered their best ever performance even in defeat on another high-yielding day for the country at the regional showpiece.
Ace Indian discus thrower Vikas Gowda got a morale booster ahead of the upcoming Asian Games as he finished overall fourth in the prestigious IAAF Diamond League Series to pocket $ 3,000 prize money.
Top woman archer Jhanu Hansda won the individual compound gold at the 14th Asian Archery Championships.
In a memorable day for Indians, seven of them made the semi-finals in different categories of the first Asian Grand Prix archery in Bangkok on Friday.
Following is the schedule of Indian contingent on the 10th day of the Asian Games tomorrow.
Pistol shooters Vijay Kumar and Gurpreet Singh opened the gold medal trail for India by winning the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (pairs) event on the fourth day of competitions in the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi on Thursday.
India had a rich haul of four gold, two silver and two bronze medals on the third day of the four-day second Asian archery Grand Prix at Bangkok on Thursday.
Verma wins compound individual gold, opens tally for India.
In what turned out to be a fruitful day for the Indian archers in the 17th Asian Games, Abhishek Verma settled for a silver after going down to Esmaeil Ebadi of Iran in the compound men's individual gold medal match in Incheon on Saturday.
Pawan Xalxo and Dola Banerjee reigned supreme in the men's and women's recurve sections respectively in the qualification round of the Asian Grand Prix archery in Dhaka on Wednesday.
Madhya Pradesh archers without any pre-match day practice concluded their campaign with two silver and one bronze
India's schedule at the Asian Games: Day 4
Mangal Singh Champia, Jayanta Talukdar and Rahul Banerjee combined to clinch their second successive gold in the men's recurve team event as India signed off with three medals in the Archery World Cup Stage I at Santo Domnigo in the Dominican Republic. The trio had earned India its first-ever gold at the Meteksan World Cup in Antalya, Turkey, last year.
Indian archers put up a dismal show in the 45th World Archery Championship as both the men and women teams failed to qualify for the knock-out stage in Ulsan, South Korea, on Wednesday.
Deepika Kumari, India's best bet in women's archery, showed good form to finish eighth in the ranking round of the women's individual recurve event at the Gyeyang Asiad Archery Field in Incheon on Wednesday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Following is the schedule of Indian contingent on the eighth day of the Asian Games on Sunday.
India's golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar romped home to a three-shot victory at the Macao Open to bag his eighth Asian Tour title in Macau on Sunday.
Following is the schedule of Indian contingent on the sixth day of the Asian Games.
Chess grandmasters resume COVID-delayed tournament in Russia
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