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Brits bag Compound double

Great Britain's Danielle Brown defended her Paralympic Games title with a narrow victory over team-mate Mel Clarke in a tense women's Individual Compound - Open final at The Royal Artillery Barracks which went down to the last arrow.
Gold and silver for Great Britain in the Archery
Danielle Brown (R) and Mel Clarke (L) of Great Britain celebrate with their gold and silver medals in the women's Individual Compound - Open class competition on Day 6 of the London 2012 Paralympic Games at The Royal Artillery Barracks.

Brown won Paralympic gold at Beijing 2008, the Commonwealth Games team title in Delhi two years ago and has now triumphed at London 2012.

Brown met compatriot Clarke - bronze medallist from Beijing - in the final, winning 6-4.

The Britons could not be separated early on, scoring 27-27 in the first set and 29-29 in the second, before three arrows of nine saw Brown, who was shooting first, take a 4-2 lead.

Clarke responded to take the fourth set 29-26 and level at 4-4 to force a fifth.

She required a maximum 10 score on the final arrow to win, but she shot a seven - her worst arrow of the final - as the pressure told and Brown won.

In the semi-finals, Brown claimed a 6-2 success over Marina Lyzhnikova and Clarke beat Stepanida Artakhinova, another Russian, 6-0.

Artakhinova claimed bronze with a 7-3 defeat of her team-mate Lyzhnikova.

Iran's Zahra Nemati won the women's Individual Recurve - W1/W2 gold medal with a 7-3 win over Elisabetta Mijno of Italy.

China's Li Jinzhi won bronze with a 6-4 defeat of Veronica Floreno of Italy.

In the women's Individual Recurve - Standing final, China's Yan Huilian claimed a 6-4 win over the Republic of Korea's Lee Hwa-sook.

Bronze was won by Milena Olszewska of Poland, who beat Mongolia's Javzmaa Byambasuren 6-2.


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