Antalya [Turkey], April 20 (ANI): Two-time Olympian Atanu Das resulted in fourth place within the males’s recurve particular person rating spherical on the Archery World Cup 2023 Stage 1 in Antalya, Turkey on Wednesday.
Atanu made his comeback after two years in fashion by scoring a report 673, one of the best rating by any Indian males’s recurve archer within the occasion.
Indian Archery star was seen final within the Yankton World Cup Final in September 2021.Apart from Atanu, Indian archers B Dhiraj (665), Tarundeep Rai (662) and Neeraj Chauhan (639) at fifteenth, twenty third and ninetieth locations respectively had been additionally taking part within the occasion. The Indian males’s recurve archery workforce additionally completed fourth with 2000 factors within the rating rounds.
Turkish Archer Mete Gazoz (688), USA’s Brady Ellison (687) and China’s Li Zhongyuan (679) had been above the Indian archer on the top-three spot respectively.
After ending fourth, India routinely certified to take part within the pre-quarterfinals within the males’s workforce occasion. In the occasion, India will play in opposition to a rustic which might come out because the first-round winners between Japan (seeded thirteenth) and Switzerland (twentieth).
It wouldn’t be straightforward for the Indian males’s recurve workforce within the Archery World Cup as they’re in the identical half the place the USA (fifth seeds) and hosts Turkey are positioned, who’re prime of the groups.On the opposite, India’s girls’s recurve archers didn’t clear the qualification spherical and ended exterior the highest 30 groups.
Debutant Bhajan Kaur was one of the best performer, ending thirty second within the occasion with 648 scores. Mexican Alejandra Valencia topped the desk by scoring 677.
Simranjeet Kaur (forty first) and Ankita Bhakat (forty sixth) had been behind Bhajan Kaur with 648 and 644 scores respectively. The Indian girls’s workforce completed eleventh within the workforce standings.
Aditi Jaiswal didn’t make it to the workforce occasion after ending 56th with a rating of 637, she’s going to now be capable of fray in particular person occasions. (ANI)