Photo by Kristin Ellis Spc. Craig Smith (right with ball) of the Warrior Transition Brigade at Walter Reed, plays wheelchair basketball for the Army team against Navy at the inaugural Warrior Games Tuesday in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Army won, 15-10. The week-long Olympic-style competition between recovering wounded, injured or ill personnel from all branches of the U.S. military, began Monday and concludes today. See Pages 8 and 9.

Michael Lukow, Brooke Army Medical Center, Texas, took the gold, and Northern Regional Medical Command’s Curtis Winston, of Fort Belvoir, Va., captured silver, and Jeffrey Anderson took bronze.

‘‘I actually picked up my first bow about a month ago,” Winston said. ‘‘I chose it because it seemed like the next best option to shooting. At first I was horrible, I’m not going to lie. But I worked at it to where I’m at now.” He credits his wife for getting him up and moving and involved in the Warrior Games.

‘‘If it wasn’t for her, I’d still be doing nothing,” he said. ‘‘[The Games] didn’t give me the chance to sit back and do nothing. It actually pushed me to do more than just sit on the couch. I’m a lot more active than I would be.”

Compound archery

The compound archery competition was held simultaneously with recurve at Olympic Training Center’s sports center Wednesday. Compound archery varies from recurve archery in that compound uses cranks and gears to assist the shooter with maintaining even tension when pulling back the bow.

Beau Parra and Matthew Benack, of the Marines, took first and second, respectively, and Army’s Robert Price, BAMC, is taking home the bronze medal. Price was dubbed ‘‘Robin Hood” by the crowd for his technique for twisting the bow around as he brought the arrow back to shoot. A skill used to help the shooter with their line of sight, the crowd was entertained by the technique.

Swimming preliminaries

The swimming preliminaries proved to be one of sports with the highest participation with 24 events run back-to-back in preparation todayday’s swimming finals. Walter Reed’s Evan Marcy and Robert Brown took second place in separate heats of the men’s 50-meter freestyle, clocking in at 38.88 and 36.50 respectively to easily qualify for today’s competition. Walter Reed’s Robert Laux also qualified in his 50-meter freestyle event with a time of 42.48.

Sitting volleyball

The Marines and Air Force remained undeafeated in the sitting volleyball going into Thursday’s semifinals.

Wheelchair basketball

Team Army clinched a spot in last night’s championship game against the Marines by defeating the Air Force 33-10 Wednes-day. Results for volleyball and basketball were not available at press time.at press time.