Antalya [Turkey], April 24 (ANI): Atanu Das, Dhiraj Bommadevara, and Tarundeep Rai, three members of the Indian males’s recurve group, took house the silver medal at Stage 1 of the Archery World Cup 2023 on Sunday in Antalya, Turkey.
The Chinese three Li Zhongyuan, Qi Xiangshuo, and Wei Shaoxuan defeated the Indian trio 4-5 within the championship match. India fell within the first two units however got here again to win the next two, tying the match at 4-4. In the fifth and closing set, each groups had been knotted at 28-28, prompting a shoot-out that the Chinese group gained as a result of Li’s first shot landed closest to the center, as per Olympics.com.
The fourth-seeded Indian males’s recurve archery group overcame the Netherlands, Chinese Taipei, Italy, and Japan to advance to the ultimate.
Later similar day, Dhiraj Bommadevara gained the bronze medal within the males’s particular person recurve competitors by defeating Kazakhstan’s Ilfat Abdullin 7-3.
Dhiraj Bommadevara, who represented India within the semi-finals on Sunday, was defeated by Moldova’s Dan Olaru by a rating of 6-4 to advance to the bronze medal match. Dhiraj blew a 4-0 lead at one level however recovered later.
Dhiraj Bommadevara overcame senior compatriots Tarundeep Rai and Brady Ellison, a former world champion and Olympic medalist, to advance to the semifinals.
India completed Turkey’s meet with 4 medals–two gold, one silver, and one bronze–after profitable the 2 medals on Sunday.
Both of the gold medals that India gained on Saturday had been a results of Jyothi Surekha Vennam. She completed first within the girls’s particular person compound occasion and gained the compound group occasion with Ojas Pravin Deotale.
Archery World Cup 2023 Stage 1 Antalya: India’s medal winners-Jyothi Surekha Vennam – gold in girls’s particular person compound-Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Pravin Deotale – gold in compound combined team-Atanu Das, Dhiraj Bommadevara and Tarundeep Rai – silver in males’s recurve team-Dhiraj Bommadevara – bronze in males’s particular person recurve. (ANI)