Archers from Jharkhand hogged the limelight with three gold, three silver and one bronze in the recurve section on the concluding day of the 40th NTPC Senior National Archery Championship on Saturday.

Dipti Kumari from Ranchi defeated her statemate Komalika Bari to win gold in the individual women’s section while Simranjeet Kaur of Punjab bagged the bronze.

Tata Steel archer Jayanta Talukdar won gold in the 70+70 metres segment of the men’s section with 680 points (out of a possible 720) while Bommadevara Dhiraj of Andhra Pradesh who scored 678 had to be content with silver and Parth Sushant Saunkhe of Maharashtra with 673 points finished third.

In the mixed team event, the vastly experienced duo of Komalika and Talukdar gave the hosts another gold medal amassing five points while Madhu Vedwan and Sachin Vedwan of Uttar Pradesh finished second with three points and Prachi Singh and Kapish Singh of Rajasthan bagged bronze.

Olympian Deepika Kumari, a native of Jharkhand and a product of Tata Archery Academy, who has joined the ONGC and represents the Petroleum Sports Control Board (PSCB), took the gold in the 70+70m women’s category scoring 665 (out of 720) while Komalika of Jharkhand with 655 points won silver and Simranjeet Kaur of Punjab had to be content with bronze with a score of 649.

In the women’s team event, the Madhya Pradesh contingent comprising Amey Rai, Vitasa Thakur, Sonia Thakur and Mausam Singh sprang a surprise bagging the gold as the Jharkhand team of Komalika, Ankita Bhakat, Dipti and Laxmi Hembrom settled for silver. The Rajasthan team of Prachi, Amandeep Kaur, Varsha Sona and Pallavi Chouhan finished third.

In the men’s team section, the Haryana contingent of Akash, Sachin Gupta, Basant Kumar and Jashandeep bagged gold as the Maharashtra team of Parth Sushant, Yashdeep Bhoge, Om Vikram and Ujwal Bharat Olekar won silver. The Jharkhand team of Jayanta, Mrinal Chauhan, Somai Murmu and Alpi Tudu finished third.

Parth Sushant of Maharashtra won gold in the individual men’s event while Sukhchain Singh of Services and Amit Yadav of Madhya Pradesh finished with silver and bronze.

The event, returning after a year, will be followed by trials on Sunday and Monday for selection of the Indian team for the Asian Archery Championships scheduled to be held in Dhaka in November.