Great Britain’s Victoria Rumary takes bronze in Paralympic archery

Rumary secured her medal courtesy of a 131-123 success against American Lia Coryell.

Victoria Rumary won bronze (PA Media)

British archer Victoria Rumary won bronze on her Paralympic debut in the W1 women’s individual event in Tokyo.

Having defeated Brazilian Rejane Candida Da Silva and Italy’s Asia Pellizzari earlier on Wednesday, the 33-year-old was denied progression to the gold medal match by a 127-107 loss to Czech Sarka Musilova.

Rumary recovered from that setback to earn the final podium place at Yumenoshima Final Field courtesy of a 131-123 success against American Lia Coryell.

Rumary first took up archery as a 14-year-old, made her international debut six years ago, and came into these games ranked world number one in the W1 category.

There was a second bronze medal for Britain in the table tennis. The men’s class 8 team of Aaron McKibbin, Billy Shilton and Ross Wilson secured it after going down 2-0 in their semi-final against China.