Indian women beat Ukraine, win bronze

June 15, 2011 12:52 am | Updated June 16, 2011 03:32 am IST - Kolkata:

The Indian women's team of Laishram Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumari and Chekrovolu Swuro won a bronze medal in the recurve team event of the Archery World Cup Stage II in Antalya, Turkey.

According to information received here, the Indian trio defeated Ukraine's Victoriya Koval, Nina Mylchenko and Lidia Sichenikova 206-197 in the bronze medal play-off on Monday.

For Commonwealth Games double gold medallist Deepika, this was the second medal of the tournament, having won silver in the mixed pair event along with Jayanta Talukdar.

With this performance, India finished fourth, having won a silver and bronze.

USA (5 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze), Korea (2, 2, 2) and Iran (1, 2, 0) took the top three spots.

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