Paralympics Games 2020 | Rakesh finishes third, Chikara in top-10 in ranking round of archery competition

Jyoti Baliyan, who is the only female member to have qualified for the Paralympics, secured a 15th place ranking in the compound open event

Indian compound archer Rakesh Kumar shot a career-best 699 points out of a possible 720 to grab the third place in the ranking round of the men’s open section of the Paralympic Games here on Friday. In the men’s recurve open category, 2019 Asian Para Championship winner Vivek Chikara finished in top-10. World No. 11 Kumar, who won an individual gold medal at the first world ranking tournament in Dubai earlier this year, narrowly missed out the second spot to Iranian Ramezan Biabani who also totalled 699 but placed higher than the Indian for shooting more arrows closest to the centre (X).