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  • World Archery Championships: Indian ladies’s compound workforce wins historic Gold medal

    By India Today Sports Desk: The Indian ladies’s compound archery workforce etched their names in historical past by clinching a gold medal on the World Archery Championships held in Berlin, Germany on Friday, August 3. This victory marked India’s first-ever gold on the archery world championships in any class.

    The triumphant workforce comprised Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Parneet Kaur, and Aditi Gopichand Swami. In the ultimate spherical, they showcased an distinctive efficiency towards the Mexican workforce, consisting of Dafne Quintero, Ana Sofia Hernandez Jeon, and Andrea Becerra. The Indian trio emerged victorious with a rating of 235-229, demonstrating their prowess and precision within the sport.

    “We’re very happy we’ve won the first title for India,” Aditi instructed World Archery.

    “We just focused on our shooting, and we were confident that we would win.”

    Their journey to the ultimate was equally spectacular. After receiving a bye within the first spherical, the Indian ladies’s compound workforce confronted and defeated formidable opponents from Chinese Taipei and Turkey within the quarter-finals and pre-quarterfinals, respectively. Their semi-final match was a nail-biting encounter towards the defending champions, Colombia. The Indian workforce triumphed with a rating of 220-216, securing their spot within the remaining.

    This victory provides to India’s spectacular tally on the World Archery Championships, the place the nation bagged a complete of 11 medals, together with six gold, one silver, and 4 bronze.

    Jyothi, Parneet and Aditi can even be in motion within the particular person compound occasion.

  • Archery: Parth Salunkhe turns into first Indian to win Youth World Championship in recurve class

    Parth Salunkhe grew to become the primary male archer to win a gold within the recurve class on the Youth World Championships as India completed with their highest-ever tally of 11 medals.

    The 19-year-old from Satara in Maharashtra supplied the proper icing on the cake by defeating a Korean within the Under-21 males’s recurve particular person remaining, in Limerick, Ireland on Sunday.

    Salunkhe, who topped the rankings spherical, prevailed over seventh seed Song Injun 7-3 (26-26, 25-28, 28-26, 29-26, 28-26) in a hard-fought five-setter.

    Parth Salunkhe’s PURE DETERMINATION. 👏
    India has the brand new 2023 World Archery Youth Champion. 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳#WorldArchery pic.twitter.com/rTDPYDCDBA

    — World Archery (@worldarchery) July 9, 2023

    India additionally clinched a bronze medal within the Under-21 girls’s recurve particular person part when Bhaja Kaur defeated Su Hsin-Yu of Chinese Taipei 7-1 (28-25, 27-27, 29-25, 30-26).

    India completed with six gold, one silver and 4 bronze medals, which was highest within the standings by way of complete variety of medals.

    But by way of rankings they completed second behind Korea who took the pole place with six gold and 4 silver medals.

    Salunkhe trailed 1-3 after Injun hitting two excellent 10s and three 9s from first six arrows.

    Just when it appeared a well-known Korean dominance over India, the previous senior nationwide champion Salunkhe fought again clinching the third set by two factors, drilling one arrow nearer to the centre (X) and made it three-all.

    Pressure was writ massive on Injun, as Salunkhe went on to hit two 10s and one 9 to grab a 5-3 lead earlier than ending off in type with two Xs.

    Son of a trainer, Salunkhe, whose expertise was first tapped by coach Praveen Sawant throughout the post-pandemic part in 2021, grew to become the primary male archer to grow to be a youth world champion.

    After Sawant found his expertise, Salunkhe educated below Ram Avdesh on the SAI centre in Sonipat.

    In girls’s recurve part, Deepika Kumari had grow to be cadet and youth world champions in 2009 and 2011, a feat that was emulated by her Jharkhand statemate Komalika Bari in 2019 and 2021.

    Overall, Salunkhe is the sixth Indian archer to grow to be world champion within the youth showpiece.

    Compound archers Palton Hansda (2006) and the duo of Aditi Swami and Priyansh who gained listed below are the opposite youth world champions.

    Salunkhe has beforehand gained a silver within the Singapore Asia Cup Leg 3 in June this 12 months, and two bronze medals in the identical occasion in Sulaymaniyah and Sharjah final 12 months.

    With the World Championships and Asian Games within the pipeline, it stays to be seen whether or not Salunkhe manages to make the lower.

  • World Archery Championship: Jyothi luggage silver after compound workforce occasions

    In 24 hours, V Jyothi Surekha pocketed her third silver within the girls’s compound occasion on the 100-acre advanced NFAA Easton Yankton Archery Center in Yankton, South Dakota, the US on Saturday.
    In the person occasion, which adopted compound girls’s workforce and blended occasions on Friday, she misplaced the gold to Colombia’s Sara Lopez by mere two factors 146-144 within the gold medal spherical. It was additionally Jyothi’s third assembly with Sara within the Worlds finals right here.
    Jyothi performed a outstanding half in each the workforce finals which completed second additionally in opposition to Colombia.
    This is her sixth medal on the Worlds including to her two bronze medals in workforce and particular person classes she received in 2019 the Worlds in ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, and a silver in girls’s workforce at 2017 Mexico City version.
    Meanwhile, the 26-year-old Colombian who defeated the Indian added the elusive world champion title. It was additionally the primary gold within the blended occasion and the third gold in girls’s occasion for Colombian groups by which Sara performed a pivotal position.
    “I’m happy because I made it to the final in all three areas, but a little disappointed because I couldn’t perform my best in the individual event,” Jyoti advised worldarchery.sport after her occasion. “I’m glad that I improved my medal from bronze to silver here.”
    As this World Championship is held within the US, it could be favouring archers like Sara and Colombia, however Indians have been sturdy until the tip, felt the world quantity 13 from India.
    “I was just focusing on my process and my shooting. I just wanted to finish my best,” stated Jyothi who hails from Vijayawada and
    In the quarterfinal spherical in opposition to nineteenth seed Amanda Mlinaric of Croatia, Jyothi scored a bullseye when she scored a 150.
    Meanwhile, within the males’s compound particular person spherical, seventh seed Abhishek Verma misplaced to second seed Mike Schloesser of the Netherlands 148-147 within the match for the bronze medal spherical.
    In the recurve occasion, an Olympic occasion, Ankita Bhakat is the lone Indian challenger remaining within the fray and can subsequent meet hosts Casey Kaufhold within the last-eight stage. The Indian shocked fourth-seeded Korean archer Kang Chae Young 6-4 within the pre-quarterfinals on Friday.

  • World Youth Championships: India U18 recurve archers win two gold, three bronze

    Indian archers received all their matches within the recurve under-18 part to seize two gold and three bronze medals and proceed their record-breaking spree within the Youth World Championships right here on Sunday.
    The males’s staff defeated their French rivals 5-3, whereas the blended pair adopted swimsuit with a 6-2 win over Japan to proceed their profitable run on the nation’s seventy fifth Independence Day.
    India additionally bagged three bronze medals within the ladies’s staff, particular person and males’s particular person occasions for an ideal present by the U-18 (cadet) archers.
    Overall in recurve and compound sections, India have received 5 gold, two silver and 5 bronze medals of their best-ever present within the match.
    India are additionally within the hunt for 3 gold and a bronze within the under-21 (junior) part later within the day.
    The top-seeded cadet males’s staff of Bishal Changmai, Amit Kumar and Vickey Ruhal had it straightforward towards the French trio as they dropped only one set en path to clinching the gold 5-3 (53-50, 56-54, 55-57, 54-54).
    Changmai, who stood third within the qualification spherical, later returned to bag his second gold when he paired up with Tamnna to win the blended occasion 6-2 (36-33, 32-34, 35-31, 35-34).
    Changmai ended up annexing a 3rd medal when he overcame Zhangbyrbay Dauletkeldi of Kazakstan 6-4 (29-28, 27-29, 29-26, 27-27, 27-27) in an intense five-setter for the person bronze.
    For Tamnna, the blended pair gold was her second medal as she had earlier within the morning received a bronze within the staff occasion.
    Tamnna, Avani and Manjiri received the higher of their German opponents 5-3 (53-50, 49-51, 52-52, 54-51) in a good third-place match.
    Manjiri went on to clinch her second bronze when she defeated Quinty Roeffen of the Netherlands 6-4 (27-23, 26-27, 25-24, 22-28, 25-22).
    The compound archers concluded their marketing campaign on Saturday with three gold, two silver and two bronze medals, making it their best-ever efficiency within the meet.
    India’s earlier greatest present within the Youth World Championships was within the final version at Madrid 2019 the place that they had bagged two gold and one bronze medal.

  • Indian archers to overlook Swiss World Cup

    India’s Olympic-bound archers won’t get to compete within the Stage 2 World Cup in Lausanne as their short-term visa utility has been rejected by the Switzerland Embassy.
    India has been battling a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that has pressured many nations to ban travellers from India.
    The Indian archers will now instantly compete within the Stage 3 World Cup in Paris which would be the final Olympic qualification occasion for the Indian girls’s recurve crew. The seven-day competitors will start on June 23.
    “Swiss Embassy did not allow any short term Visa and we had little time for the Stage 2 World Cup (May 17-23). Our focus is solely on the Paris World Cup now,” Archery Association of secretary common Pramod Chandurkar instructed PTI.
    India thus far have males’s crew and ladies’s particular person berths for Tokyo. The nationwide federation can also looking for a rest within the 10-day quarantine rule for its archer once they attain Paris.
    “We are mulling to write to the French federation to allow the archers to travel at least for practice during the 10-day quarantine,” he mentioned.
    Chandurkar additional mentioned that the federation would additionally ship the compound crew to Paris. The crew had missed out on World Cup Stage 1 following their head coach’s “false positive report”.
    “Compound archers are short on tournament exposure for a long time so we want to have a full strength participation in World Cup Stage 3,” Chandurkar added.
    In the absence of the compound crew, the recurve archers got here up with their finest ever present in a World Cup, profitable three gold medals and one bronze in Guatemala City final month.

  • In the precise thoughts area, Deepika Kumari mints gold at Archery World Cup

    Rainy-unsettling winds and big-stage bumbles; clucking tongues of critics and return journeys with out medals. Deepika Kumari has gone by means of all of them within the final decade. Every time the expectations soared – primarily based on outcomes main as much as an Olympics – Deepika was catapulted into that cauldron of effervescent hope. A prodigious recurve, Deepika would tackle extra pressure than the 40-42 poundage of the bowstring on her shoulders. A wilting on the most important levels would comply with within the large strain matches, and she or he by no means fairly strung collectively slick phrases to parry away the media scrutiny.
    Moreover, in a sport color coding your precision over concentric circles and assigning factors in a jiffy, no person fairly understood the forlorn determine on the taking pictures station. Heading into her third Olympics although, Deepika has introduced a good quantity of emotion to the present: happier feelings.
    And you would see it when she gained the person gold on the Guatemala World Cup on Sunday.
    Shooting the recurve particular person remaining, Deepika thrice discovered herself in a crunch over the past three days of the occasion. But she’d compose herself into stillness to let the method and muscle reminiscence take over. Then she would flip round to the coach who would validate with a ‘badhiyaa.’ And she’d beam away a relieved grin and guffaw to the group standing behind her.

    Team India 🇮🇳 take recurve ladies’s group gold in Guatemala City! 👏 🥉 🏹#ArcheryWorldCup pic.twitter.com/LhtnCXtXaD
    — World Archery (@worldarchery) April 25, 2021
    She was taking her time alright. But she was pulling out the stable arrows that obtained the job performed – be it in group or particular person.
    An unlikely sight of the as soon as teenager, who grew up in entrance of an expectant nation, attempting to squeeze a medal out of her prodigious expertise, now starting to benefit from the strain.
    Speaking to The Indian Express throughout lockdown final 12 months, Deepika mentioned “I know my high level at competitions. I’m not worried about social media videos of my rivals training in their backyards through lockdowns while we are indoors. When competitions come, I’ll show my high level to the world.”
    Keeping the fletches from falling into disrepair was her solely concern. Marriage to fellow archer Atanu Das and classes with psychologists additionally helped yield confidence.
    The Koreans — Kang Chae Young, Jang Monger and the top-ranked An San — holders of the 1400 FITA document and compulsive champions should not straightforward to interrupt by means of. Deepika’s edge although is that she’s been in each wretched state of affairs conceivable. Overcoming these efficiency demons, she is now embracing the strain.
    Up towards American Mackenzie Brown within the gold medal remaining, she led 3-1 earlier than Brown levelled proceedings. But undeterred, Deepika would ring in a 29 earlier than the decisive arrow fetched up.
    She’d later say her coronary heart was beating fairly audibly, scaring her into nervousness. But there was no twitchy wreckage this time, as she’d ship the arrow high proper, simply millimetres out of the ten circle. Brown obtained a 9 too, however additional away – giving the Indian her third World Cup title. It got here just some hours after she helped India to a gold within the group occasion – putting a spectacular 10 for the win.
    “She’s confident because of the experience now,” says former Olympian Dola Banerjee. “She was at all times very decided to appropriate her errors, whether or not method or mentally. Very devoted and obsessive. But now she’s taking pictures like a group captain, like a senior ought to. Calmly.
    “Maybe it’s meditation, maybe work with a mental trainer. But I also think she’s happy being in the Indian camp with her group and they travel and compete together. The camaraderie is helping her. She just needs to stay motivated.” Deepika was undoubtedly buoyed by the achievement.
    “It’s been a long time since I shot in the finals. It feels great and, at the same time, I’m happy and nervous. It gives me confidence and pushes me to give better performances,” she informed World Archery.
    Perfect rating for Atanu
    While Deepika has discovered her peace, males’s recurve Atanu Das discovered his roar towards Spain’s Daniel Castro.
    The Spaniard was taking pictures a superb constant vary. But there was not a lot he might do when Das pushed up a degree within the fifth set to hit a Perfect 30 to win his first World Cup. “It feels amazing,” the 29-year-old says. “I’ve labored for thus a few years and now that is paying off.
    “I just gave my best. I didn’t think about the future or the past, just present. It’s beautiful. It’s a big boost for me ahead of the Olympics. I’m working in the right way.”

  • Archery couple Deepika Kumari-Atanu Das shoots triple gold as India end with 4 medals at World Cup

    Indian archery’s star couple Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das led the present with two particular person gold medals because the nation capped its greatest ever efficiency in a World Cup, claiming three golds and a bronze within the event’s first stage.
    Former world primary Deepika claimed her profession’s third particular person World Cup gold so as to add to the crew’s triumph, whereas her husband Das grabbed his first ever World Cup particular person medal in type successful the lads’s recurve particular person ultimate.
    The two are actually robotically certified for this season’s most-coveted Archery World Cup Final.
    “We travel together, train together, compete together and win together,” Das, who bought married to Deepika in June final yr after a two-year courtship, mentioned after claiming the gold medal on Sunday.
    “She knows what I like, and I know what she likes.”
    This was one of the best ever World Cup end by India’s recurve archers with two particular person and one crew gold medals of their return to the highest International calendar yr occasion after nearly two years.
    Also, this was India’s greatest ever particular person recurve males’s consequence since Jayanta Talukdar triumphed in Croatia method again in 2009.
    India began with the ladies’s trio of Deepika, Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari successful the primary crew gold after seven years. They scripted a surprising turnaround to down fancied Mexico 5-4 (27-26) in an intriguing shoot-off.
    The efficiency rubbed off on the blended pair of Das and Bhakat as they bagged a bronze, upsetting high seeds USA 6-2 with yet one more fightback on the Sports Complex Los Arcos right here.
    But the icing on the cake got here within the particular person occasions later within the day Deepika and Das bagged two particular person golds of their respective occasions.
    Former world primary Deepika, who was seeded third, stayed calm in an intense shoot-off to edge out USA’s eighth seed Mackenzie Brown 6-5 (9-9) by hitting nearer to the centre. In the semi-final she had defeated her Mexican rival Alejandra Valencia 7-3.
    This was Deepika’s third profession stage win and first since Salt Lake City 2018.
    World quantity six Deepika was 3-1 up after two units however noticed that lead vanish after Brown evened the match with a 29 within the third and a 28 within the fourth.
    The two-time Olympian, nonetheless, held her floor within the fifth, capturing a 29 and displaying the sort of resilience she’s oft been accused of missing.
    “The most difficult part was the heart beat sound, which made me really nervous,” she mentioned, mimicking it for emphasis.
    “It’s been a long time since I shot in the finals,” she mentioned. “It feels great and, at the same time, I’m happy and nervous. It gives me confidence and pushes me to give better performances.”
    But one of the best present got here from her husband Das when he outclassed Spanish World Cup debutant Daniel Castro 6-4. Das’ earlier greatest within the particular person part has been a fourth place end in Antalya 2016 the place he misplaced to Kim Woojin within the bronze playoff.
    Trailing after three units within the ultimate towards Castro, Das flicked a change.
    He closed with a 29 and a 30 — capturing his final 10 earlier than his opponent had completed, placing the match out of attain and sealed the problem with a punch within the air.
    “It feels amazing. It’s like dreams are coming true. I have worked for so many years and now this is paying off. This is my first title and I’m very happy,” Das mentioned.
    On his good final set to take gold, he mentioned, “I just gave my best and was present. I didn’t think about the future or the past, just present.”
    “It’s beautiful. It’s a big boost for me ahead of the Olympics. I’m working in the right way,” Das, who will likely be capturing in his second Olympics at Tokyo, signed off.

  • At the crunch, Deepika Kumari steps as much as assist India bag crew gold

    Deepika Kumari is ringing within the new season with some sensational capturing on the clutch. The final arrow has been her bane for a while now.
    But not on a brilliant Sunday morning on the Guatemala Archery World Cup, when India’s girls’s crew took on hosts Mexico within the remaining.
    The Indians comprising Deepika, Komalika Bari and Ankita Bhakat had fought again from a 2-1 set deficit to stage within the fourth. But it was within the deciding shoot-off the place all shooters get one shy every that Deepika introduced her booming prowess to the sector.
    Komalika had a 9 and Ankita an 8 to complete 17. The second Mexican to go — Anna Vazquez shot a ten to go together with the 9 from Alejandra Valencia. 17-19, with strain on Deepika to maintain India in rivalry.

    Team India 🇮🇳 take recurve girls’s crew gold in Guatemala City! 👏 🥉 🏹#ArcheryWorldCup pic.twitter.com/LhtnCXtXaD
    — World Archery (@worldarchery) April 25, 2021
    Her nose-septum gleaming marvellously because the bow string steadied on the nostrils, Deepika would hearth an internal 10 — an ideal X, to chuck the strain again on the Mexicans.
    The house crew had been all assured and fist bumps till now. But Deepika, wanting much more self assured than she has would coolly step up when it was wanted and rattle the Mexicans.
    Needing 9, the arrow wobbling forth would hit the outer purple for a 7, as India would choose their fifth World Cup gold medal.
    Ankita had been capturing confidently, whereas Komalika confronted a number of nervy moments by way of the ultimate as India pulled again from 57-56, 55-57, 55-57, 57-52 to take the thriller 27-26 within the final set.
    Indian girls are aiming for Olympics qualification to safe a full quota of three archers at Tokyo. The combating remaining win will stand them in good stead for the June shoot offs. Deepika’s capturing too seems assured now and has a pleasant gold ring to it.
    Later Ankita Bhakat and Atanu Das would choose the bronze beating USA’s Casey Kaufhold and Brady Ellison, 37-34, 35-38, 38-36, 37-35. Trading the primary two units, the Indians wanted time to seek out their groove.
    The opener didn’t see a single 10 from both of the Indians within the combined third place match, as they began 8, 9, 9, 8 in Set 1.
    They’d come again rousingly capturing 8, 10, 10 & X – honing in on the yellow. A few 10s and an internal 10 would see the momentum nicely and really turned. And the ultimate and fourth set was a strong 9, 10, 9, 9.
    While the Americans struggled to seek out their 10s, Indians had been raining them down at will to take the match away on a track after the preliminary clearing of the throat.

  • India’s probability of gold rests on Deepika Kumari’s regular purpose, expertise

    Alejandra Valencia is 26. The Mexican recurve archer has been to 2 Olympics, 2012 and 2016, and has come up wanting her medal-expectations, making the Games a not-so-happy reminiscence for her. It’s a profession in worldwide archery that began with a lot promise as she battled for bronze at London in 2012, and ended a heartbreaking fourth.
    The residence contender meets a little bit of a mirror picture within the World Cup finals on the Sports Complex Los Arcos in Guatemala, Mexico. Seeded seventh, she faces third seed Indian Deepika Kumari within the season’s first closing.
    Aged 26 herself, Deepika is a veteran of two Olympics too. The world archery federation’s match description famous that the much-loved determine within the sport — owing to her prodigious expertise since she burst on the scene as a star at 16 — has been capturing “more solid, than spectacular” when making the person finals. Disappointments litter the final decade, however there’s a doughty dedication that these watching her preserve searching for in her recreation as one other Games creep up steadily on the horizon with all of the uncertainty related to them.
    Yet amidst the chaos, archers want to collect their nerves and purpose on the yellow circle, dreaming of the gold disc in July at Tokyo.
    Deepika has two World Cup particular person gold medals — at Antalya in 2012, in what looks as if a debut title a distant decade away. Her final got here at Salt Lake City in 2018. She additionally has 6 silver medals.
    But for a embellished archer of her calibre, although a gold on this depleted subject received’t add to her stature, it would undoubtedly increase her confidence about coming by means of stiff face-off challenges.

    Indian couple Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari will shoot for particular person golds this weekend in Guatemala City! 🔥🇮🇳#ArcheryWorldCup #FinalFour pic.twitter.com/AP8uALA0WY
    — World Archery (@worldarchery) April 22, 2021
    Team issues
    However, it’s within the workforce finals that Deepika can be anticipated to drag her weight. With the worldwide powerhouses Korea, China, Taipei not travelling, India strains up in opposition to the hosts Mexico, not a crushable workforce by any measure. Yet the Indians comprising Deepika alongwith children Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari begin as favourites.
    India has a storied legacy in ladies’s workforce occasions with 4 gold medals, however Deepika has all the time had seniors like Dola Banerjee, Bombayala Devi, Laxmi Majhi and Chekrovolu Swuro round her within the final 15 years. This time, she’s a senior herself and anticipated to hold the duty of shepherding the younger inexperienced teammates.
    Besides Alejandra Valencia, Mexico have Pan Am champ Ana Vazquez, an ebullient and tremendous assured archer who revels when capturing in entrance of her residence workforce. Vazquez can be recognized for her celebratory jigs which ship adoring crowds into peals and hoots of cheering, although the ambiance can be moderately sedate as sport appears to get off the mark whereas preserving a virus at bay.
    The Indian archers obtained their vaccine pictures earlier final month, however the sport settings nonetheless stay anxious and sombre. Still, Guatemala is the rivals’ residence turf. And Deepika can be anticipated to usher in all her expertise into play.She can have a particular grudge rating to settle in opposition to the Mexicans who dumped the Indian combined workforce of Deepika and Atanu Das out, in a shootoff for a spot within the closing. So, Deepika-Atanu will as an alternative combat USA for bronze on the morning of Sunday.
    However, the ladies’s workforce is eager on hitting some kind forward of June after they go for the ultimate Olympic qualifying in Paris. Indian ladies’s groups haven’t missed out on the Games within the final decade. So there’s stress to make it this time.
    “It’s important because we are not qualified (for the Olympics) yet. So it’s very important that we shoot well and improve as quickly as possible,” Deepika was quoted by PTI. “If we win, our confidence level will increase. If we shoot well here, we’ll get confidence and shoot well at the next event. And then we’ll gain more confidence, and shoot better.”
    Standing alongside her is the youth world champion Komalika Bari, a very good relaxed foil to her senior’s nervous disposition. She was quoted as saying: “I fit well (in the team)… I’m doing better now and I’m feeling more confident. They only shoot in 10s and I just have to keep it in the yellow to get a win.”
    The Olympic quota is coveted sooner or later, however in Mexico, it’s the gold the ladies’s workforce will purpose for.