New Delhi [India], February 21 (ANI): Former world primary archer Deepika Kumari didn’t make it to the Indian archery crew for the Asian Games 2022, that are scheduled in Hangzhou later this 12 months in September-October, whereas her husband Atanu Das managed to make it to the facet for the continental sporting occasion.
Following the nationwide trials that concluded on Monday on the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Sonipat, the crew for Asian Games, Asian Championships, World Championships and 4 archery World Cups for this 12 months was chosen.
Both Deepika and Atanu had didn’t make it to the crew final 12 months, however they acquired a possibility as recent trials had been held after the Asian Games had been postponed by a 12 months because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now the video games might be held from September 23 to October 8 this 12 months.
Deepika had grow to be a mom couple of months again and had completed seventh within the first section of trials in Kolkata final month. She might get solely a ninth-place end within the girls’s recurve trials at Sonipat to overlook out. The World Cup gold medalist needed to keep inside the high eight gamers to make it to the ultimate leg of the trials, a stage which determined the core crew and reserves.
Deepika Kumari, who turned a mom a few months again, completed seventh within the first section of the trials in Kolkata final month however might solely handle a ninth-place end within the girls’s recurve trials at Sonipat to overlook out.
Only the highest 4 gamers from every class (males’s recurve, girls’s recurve, males’s compound and girls’s compound) made it to the Indian crew for 2023.
The archers ending between fifth and eighth spots in trials would be the reserves, who will get a possibility to interrupt into the crew in case of ‘non-performance’ by any of the core archers.
Deepika will nonetheless have a possibility to make it to the crew for the Paris Olympics 2024 because the open trials are slated for January subsequent 12 months.
Bhajan Kaur, Aditi Jaiswal, Ankita Bhakat and Simranjeet Kaur completed as the highest 4 archers within the girls’s recurve class trials. Komalika Bari, a former cadet world champion, and former nationwide champion Ridhi Phor, in the meantime, managed finishes outdoors the highest eight.
In males’s recurve trials, Atanu returned to the nationwide facet for the primary time since Tokyo 2020 Olympics and completed second behind Dhiraj Bommadevara. This two-time Olympian has been in a comeback mode and captured gold within the 2022 National Games in Gujarat.
Veteran Olympian Tarundeep Rai and teen Neeraj Chauhan full the four-member males’s recurve crew. Meanwhile, Olympian Jayanta Talukdar completed in seventh place.
In the lads’s compound trials, there was a serious upset during which a high Indian identify, Abhishek Verma, completed outdoors the highest 4. The two-time World Cup particular person gold medallist completed fifth.
Indian archery crew for Asian Games 2022:-Men’s recurve: Dhiraj Bommadevara, Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai, Neeraj ChauhanReserves – Tushar Shelke, Mrinal Chauhan, Jayanta Talukdar, Indrachand Swami-Women’s recurve: Bhajan Kaur, Aditi Jaiswal, Ankita Bhakat, Simranjeet KaurReserves – Madhu Vedwan, Sangeeta, Tanisha Verma, Prachi Singh-Men’s compound: Prathamesh Jawkar, Rajat Chauhan, Ojas Deotale, Rishabh YadavReserves – Abhishek Verma, Amit, Harsh Borate, Kushal Dalal-Women’s compound: Avneet Kaur, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, Sakshi ChaudharyReserves – Pragati, Raginee Marko, Parneet Kaur, Taniparthi Chikitha. (ANI)