Rajasthan archers Priya Gurjar and Sachin Chechi win silver medals at Swiss Open

Rajasthan archers Priya Gurjar and Sachin Chechi won silver medals at the Swiss Open Archery Tournament, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 30 October to 1 November.

Medal Winners and Training

Gurjar won a silver medal, while Chechi secured silver in the under-21 category. Both athletes regularly train at Jaipur’s Advance Archery Academy under coach Sunil Chaudhary.

Important Facts for Exams

• Bow-draw classes: Archery bows are broadly divided into those drawn directly by the archer and those that use a mechanism to pull the string.
• Arrow-release side: In Western archery, a right-handed archer usually releases the arrow from the bow’s left side.
• Recurve set scoring: In World Archery individual recurve matches, winning an end earns two set points, a tied end earns one each, and the first archer to six points wins.
• Target-match shoot-offs: If a World Archery target match remains tied after its sets, a one-arrow shoot-off decides the winner; equally close arrows require another shoot-off.