Rajib Basumatary, Namita Yadav Asian junior champions

Kolkata, June 18 (UNI) India's Rajib Basumatary and Namita Yadav kept the tricolour flying at the second Asian junior archery championship by winning the individual titles of the boys' recurve and girls' compound bow sections respectively at the Taiwan Archery Range at Chinese Taipei today.

Earlier on Sunday, India's Abhishek Verma won the boys' individual crown in the compound section.

At the end of the penultimate day of the five-day championship, India's medal haul read three gold medals, one silver and two bronze medals. India won two gold medals and a bronze on Monday, according to information received here.

Basumatary, originally from Assam and now a cadet of the Tata Archery Academy, Jamshedpur, defeated Wei Che Chen of Chinese Taipei with a score of 104 to 101 in the boys' recurve final. The other Indian Prabhat Kandir, who lost to Basumatary in the semifinals, took the bronze medal getting the better of Cheng Weng of Chinese Taipei at 109-106 points.

Junior National champion Namita lived up to her billing to annex the Asian title quelling the challenge of Delle Threes of Indonesia in the girls' compound final with a score of 111 to 108 points.

India could have won one more bronze medal but M Rishtha lost to Klam Yan Koon of Hong Kong by 99 to 102 points.

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