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Asia Cup Archery: Deepika Kumari Returns To Winning Ways, Bags Two Gold In India's Haul Of 14 Medals

Indian archers dominated the field on the final day,🌊 wꦏinning all the seven finals. They also won three silver medals

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Former World no. 1 archer Deepika Kumari. Photo: X/ @IndiaSportsHub
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Former world number one archer Deepika Kumari returned to winning ways 14 months after embracing motherhood as she bagged two gold in India's rich haul of 14 medals at the Asia Cup Leg 1 in Baghdad on Sunday. (More Sports News)

Indian archers domin🉐ated the field on the final day, winning all the seven finals. They also won three silver medals.

Overall, India enꦿded with 10 gold medals, three silver aꦕnd one bronze.

The three-time Olympian, Deepika defeated Simranjeet Kaur 6-2 to pocket the recurve wom♍en's title, her first titlܫe since June 2022.

She last won a medal in the World Cup Stage 3 where she had bagged a team♉ silver.

She helped the women's team overcome Uzbekistan 5-4 (24*-24) in a tig🍸ht shoot-off finish en route to her second gold.

Recurve men's team and mixed team beat Bangladesh in one-𝕴sided finals for two more gold.

While the ♓men's team won in straight sets 6-0, the mixed pair dropped on set to win 6-2.

Dhiraj Bommadevara clinched t💃he men's title, defeating his senior Army colleague Tarudeep Ra⛄i 7-3.

Prathamesh Jawkar claimed the compound individual titlꦉe, pipping team🃏mate Kushal Dalal 146-144.

Parneet Kaur prevailed꧑ over Fatemeh Hemmati of Iran 138-135 to secure ꦗthe compound women's title.