A solitary medal is all the Indian contingent could afford on Day 3, with the shooting team delivering yet another podium finish. At the same time, there were also a few misses, with a key medal contender crashing out earlier than expected. read moreDay 3 wasn’t quite as eventful for the Indian contingent in terms of medals as the second day was, but was definitely an improvement from Day 1.After the euphoria of winning four medals on the second day including three in shooting, there was hope of the nation winning multiple medals the following day as well. Sheetal was leading 29-28 after the first end, with the two then tied on 55, 82 and 111 in the next three ends. A couple of 8s in the fifth and final end, however, proved costly for the Indian and Zuniga was able to seal the contest with an 8 after firing 9 and 10 in the fifth end. Sarita, meanwhile, had advanced to the quarter-finals with a 141-135 victory over Italy’s Eleonora Sarti, but she would bow out of the competition not long after Sheetal with a 140-145 loss against Turkey’s Oznur Cure Girdi. What’s more, Nagar couldn’t even finish his SH6 Group B match against Meechai, retiring hurt in Game 2, although it wouldn’t have made much of a difference in the end as his opponent was leading 11-3 after securing a 22-20 victory in Game 1.Other Indian para-shuttlers finishing on the losing side on Saturday were Tarun, Manisha Ramadass, Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan and Sivarajan Solaimalai. Manoj Sarkar won his SL3 Group A match against Jianyuan Yang, but that did not help him confirm a place in the semi-finals. Parveen, however, could only throw as far as 42.12 metres in his fourth attempt to finish eighth out of 11 competitors. Parveen, however, will be disappointed at not breaching his personal best 42.87m at the very least.

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A solitary medal is all the Indian contingent could afford on Day 3, with the shooting team delivering yet another podium finish. At the same time, there were also a few misses, with a key medal contender crashing out earlier than expected. read moreDay 3 wasn’t quite as eventful for the Indian contingent in terms of medals as the second day was, but was definitely an improvement from Day 1.After the euphoria of winning four medals on the second day including three in shooting, there was hope of the nation winning multiple medals the following day as well. Sheetal was leading 29-28 after the first end, with the two then tied on 55, 82 and 111 in the next three ends. A couple of 8s in the fifth and final end, however, proved costly for the Indian and Zuniga was able to seal the contest with an 8 after firing 9 and 10 in the fifth end. Sarita, meanwhile, had advanced to the quarter-finals with a 141-135 victory over Italy’s Eleonora Sarti, but she would bow out of the competition not long after Sheetal with a 140-145 loss against Turkey’s Oznur Cure Girdi. What’s more, Nagar couldn’t even finish his SH6 Group B match against Meechai, retiring hurt in Game 2, although it wouldn’t have made much of a difference in the end as his opponent was leading 11-3 after securing a 22-20 victory in Game 1.Other Indian para-shuttlers finishing on the losing side on Saturday were Tarun, Manisha Ramadass, Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan and Sivarajan Solaimalai. Manoj Sarkar won his SL3 Group A match against Jianyuan Yang, but that did not help him confirm a place in the semi-finals. Parveen, however, could only throw as far as 42.12 metres in his fourth attempt to finish eighth out of 11 competitors. Parveen, however, will be disappointed at not breaching his personal best 42.87m at the very least.

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