Bangladesh’s Roman, Nasrin beat India to clinch gold in archery

Bangladesh archers Roman Shana and Nasrin Akter defeated their Indian counterparts in the final of the mixed Recurve event of the Asia Cup Archery World Ranking Stage-1 in Phuket, Thailand on Saturday (March 19) to win the country its first gold.

The Bangladeshi duo came from behind to defeat the Indian pair of Salenke and Ridhi Phor by 5-3 set points.

Earlier on Friday (March 18), the duo easily won their quarter-final and semi-final bouts against a Thai and Kazakh pair respectively, winning both games by identical 6-0 margins.