India’s Sheetal Devi continued her stellar run at the Para World Archery Championships on Saturday, September 27, defeating Turkiye’s top-ranked Oznur Cure Girdi 146-143 to clinch gold in the women’s compound individual category in Gwangju.

This triumph marks Sheetal’s third medal at the event. She had earlier won a mixed team bronze alongside Toman Kumar, overcoming Great Britain’s Jodie Grinham and Nathan MacQueen 152-149. In the compound women’s open team event, Sheetal and Sarita claimed silver after falling to Turkiye in the final.

The singles final proved to be a tense battle, but Sheetal held her composure throughout. The opening end was tied at 29-29, after which she fired a hat-trick of 10s in the second end to seize the lead, winning that end 30-27. The third end was again even

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