Paris [France], August 17 (ANI): The Indian males’s and girls’s recurve groups gained bronze medals to open India’s account on the Archery World Cup 2023 stage 4 in Paris, France, on Thursday.
While the boys’s archery staff obtained the higher of Spain 6-2 within the bronze medal match, the ladies’s staff beat Mexico within the shoot-off after scores have been tied 4-4 on the finish of the fourth set.
The Indian staff in males’s recurve archery, comprising Tokyo Olympian Atanu Das, Dhiraj Bommadevara and Tushar Shelke, shot 2034 factors within the qualifying spherical for second place behind the Republic of Korea. A complete of 26 nationwide groups competed within the males’s recurve staff competitors.
The high 4 groups obtained a bye within the first spherical. India stormed by Mexico 6-2 within the second spherical and handed seventh-seed Canada a 5-1 defeat within the quarter-finals.
However, India have been blanked by Chinese Taipei 6-0 within the semi-finals and have been pulled into the bronze medal match.
Later within the day, the Indian ladies’s recurve staff of Bhajan Kaur, Ankita Bhakat and Simranjeet Kaur additionally clinched bronze. They got here sixth within the 23-team qualifying occasion with a rating of 1979 factors.
The Indian ladies beat Japan 6-2 and Italy 5-1 on their method to the semi-finals however like the boys’s staff, their cost was additionally halted by Chinese Taipei, who gained 6-0.
In particular person recurve occasions, Dhiraj Bommadevara and Atanu Das got here fourth and sixth within the males’s qualifying spherical and gained their first spherical of elimination matches. The second spherical can be held on Friday.
Mrinal Chauhan and Tushar Shelke crashed out within the first spherical after ending exterior the highest 50 within the {qualifications}.
In the ladies’s particular person recurve, Bhajan Kaur was the best-placed Indian archer at seventeenth. She gained her first elimination match and progressed to the second spherical together with Ankita Bhakat and Simranjeet Kaur. Prachi Singh bowed out within the first spherical.
In compound archery on Wednesday, the Indian males’s and girls’s groups progressed to the gold medal matches. The males’s staff of Ojas Pravin Deotale, Prathamesh Jawkar and Abhishek Verma will tackle the USA on Saturday whereas Aditi Gopichand Swami, Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Parneet Kaur can be up towards Mexico.
Individual compound archery occasions noticed 17-year-old Aditi Gopichand Swami, the youngest ladies’s world champion in archery historical past and 21-year-old Ojas Pravin Deotale, the boys’s world champion, declare first and second place of their respective qualifying occasions.
The particular person medal rounds in compound archery will start on Saturday whereas for recurve archers, the medal rounds can be on Sunday.
There aren’t any direct Olympic quota locations on supply in Paris however the World Cup will supply rating factors to recurve archers. The rating factors can be used to find out two staff quotas for each women and men on the Paris 2024 Olympics. (ANI)