WORCESTER-based archer Mel Clarke won a Paralympic silver medal in a tense women’s individual compound final at the Royal Artillery Barracks which went down to the final arrow.
Danielle Brown successfully defended her title with a narrow victory over team-mate Clarke, who won a bronze medal in Beijing, 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 semi-final 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.
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