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  • Asia Cup: India assured of six medals, recurve archers disappoint once more

    A second string Indian crew has assured six medals, primarily within the compound class on the ongoing Asia Cup Archery Championship on Thursday. However, India’s male recurve archers have been as soon as once more a giant letdown with not a single considered one of them capable of attain the person medal spherical.

    The Indians nonetheless made amends within the crew occasions advancing into the ultimate in each the boys’s and girls’s sections. The excessive level of the day got here within the compound part the place India remained in line for a clear sweep. India have despatched their fringe archers for the event which already has misplaced some sheen after pull-out from South Korea, China, Japan and Chinese Taipei.

    National champion Parth Salunkhe, who earned the highest seed, and sixth seed Dhiraj B of the Services made first spherical exits. Maharashtra lad Salunkhe put up a courageous combat earlier than shedding to Malaysia’s Muhamad Zarif Syahiir Zolkepeli 4-6 (28-29, 27-27, 27-28, 28-28, 26-26).

    Dhiraj on different hand misplaced out in one-sided present 1-7 (27-28, 28-28, 26-29, 24-15). Women’s high seed Ridhi Phor and tenth seed Laxmi Hembrom additionally suffered first spherical exits.

    😬😬😬…🤯#archery pic.twitter.com/34ysZRO8Uz

    — World Archery (@worldarchery) March 17, 2022

    Ridhi misplaced to her Bangladeshi rival Diya Siddhique 4-6 (27-28, 27-24, 29-24, 25-27, 25-28), whereas Laxmi squandered a 4-0 result in be eradicated within the shootoff 5-6 (28-25, 25-24, 25-26, 25-25, 25-28 T: 8-9).

    It was fourth seed Tisha Punia who gave India the ray of hope within the recurve girls’s particular person occasion establishing a bronze-playoff towards Malaysia’s Naa Fozi.

    The males’s trio of Salunkhe, Dhiraj and Rahul Kumar Nagarwal arrange a closing conflict towards Kazakhstan. In a small area of seven groups, the highest seeded India bought a primary spherical bye, whereas within the subsequent spherical (semifinal) they overcame their opponents from Malaysia 5-1 (58-58, 54-49, 58-56).

    It was only a four-team affair within the recurve girls’s crew occasion as the highest seeded India that includes Ridhi, Tisha and Tanisha Verma ousted hosts Thailand 6-2 (56-57, 53-50, 50-39, 55-46) to arrange a gold medal conflict towards Bangladesh.

    EIGHT high seeds for India after qualifying on the #AsiaCup in Phuket. 🇮🇳🙌

    What an outstanding begin. 👇

    1️⃣ Recurve males
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    1️⃣ Recurve males crew
    1️⃣ Recurve girls crew
    1️⃣ Recurve combined crew
    1️⃣ Compound males crew
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    1️⃣ Compound combined crew#archery pic.twitter.com/DXaFYkvkBH

    — World Archery (@worldarchery) March 17, 2022

    In an eight-member area within the compound occasion, second seed Rishabh Yadav defeated Bangladesh’s Nawaz Ahmed Rakib (148-144) and Iranian Sayed Kowsar (148-145) to enter the summit conflict. He will face fourth seed Mohammadsaleh Palizban of Iran for the gold medal battle.

    India can even hope for a bronze within the compound males particular person occasion the place Prathamesh Jawkar will tackle Kowsar. It will probably be an all-Indian affair within the compound girls’s particular person occasion the place Parneet Kaur will conflict towards her teammate Sakshi Chaudhary. Parneet, who completed a lowly thirteenth within the {qualifications}, additionally made the ultimate within the compound girls’s particular person.  She ousted Viktoriya of Kazakhstan (145-141) and Geesa Bybordy of Iran (146=142) to arrange a gold medals conflict towards second seed Sakshi began off beating Kosar Khoshnoudikia of Iran in a tie breaker 10-9 after they have been locked 144-all.

    In the semi-final, she ousted native rival Kanoknapus Kaewchomphu 143-139. India additionally made finals within the males’s and girls’s compound crew occasions.

  • 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.

  • India U-18 compound archers shatter two qualifying world data

    The Indian compound women and blended workforce on Tuesday broke two Under-18 world data throughout their rating spherical of the World Youth Championships right here.
    The women workforce of Priya Gurjar, Parneet Kaur and Ridhu Senthilkumar mixed for a complete of 2067 to raised the earlier report by 22 factors.
    Priya shot 696 to take the person pole, whereas Parneet Kaur (third) and Ridhu Varshini Senthilkumar (fourth) have been the following greatest Indians.
    American trio of Keane Sanchiko, Breanna Theodore and Savannah Vanderwier had the earlier report of 2045 registered in Rosario in 2017.
    Priya additionally mixed with Kushal Dalal (705) for a blended pair tally of 1401 to interrupt the earlier mark held by Danish duo of Natacha Stutz and Mathias Fullerton (1387) on the Madrid World Youth Championships in 2019.
    “I’m really happy but I can shoot even more than I did today. I have to shoot proper shots and try my best, then I can get even better results. My goal is to become world champion and I will do my best,” 17-year-old Priya stated.
    The compound U-18 workforce took the second place with Dalal taking the third place within the particular person rating spherical.
    Reigning U-18 recurve world champion Komalika Bari, who’s returning to the Under-21 age group of juniors, ranked sixth with 656 factors because the Indian girls’s workforce took the fifth place with a mixed tally of 1905.
    The recurve U-21 males’s workforce, then again, took the second place with Parth Salunkhe (663) main the Indian problem with a seventh place rating within the particular person part.
    The males’s workforce totalled 1977 factors to take the second seed behind Russia.

  • Archery World Cup: Atanu Das, Deepika Kumari guarantee India of a medal; Abhishek Verma in semis 

    Star archery couple Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari assured India its first medal from the continuing World Cup Stage 3 by getting into the ultimate of the blended pair occasion with a comeback 5-3 win over Spain right here on Thursday.
    Atanu and Deepika, who’re India’s greatest medal hopes within the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, had been at their greatest to make their first ultimate collectively the place they’ll face the Netherlands within the summit conflict on Sunday.
    World quantity three Deepika, who gained the World Cup Stage 1 in Guatemala City in April, can be within the hunt for a second medal, having superior to the person semi-final for the second successive time this yr.
    Ace compound archer Abhishek Verma additionally stored India in hunt for an additional medal by advancing to the semi-finals of the person part within the night session with a 146-146 (10-9) shoot-off win over Martin Laursen of Denmark.
    Returning to motion after virtually two years, the two-time World Cup winner Verma, who had certified as eleventh seed, shot two excellent 10s together with one X within the shoot-off to arrange a last-four conflict towards Anton Bulaev of Russia.
    In the recurve blended semi-final, Atanu and Deepika, who had been ranked fifth within the qualification to get a primary spherical bye, misplaced the primary set by two factors towards Daniel Castro and Ines De Velasco, who shot three excellent 10s together with two closest to the centre (X) from 4 arrows.
    But the Indian pair upped their tempo with constant taking pictures (9-9-9-10) to carry the match on a fair keel with a slender one-point win within the second set.
    Both shot 37-37 for a 3-all within the third set earlier than the Indian couple confirmed their class to drill three excellent 10s and one 9 to seal the problem within the fourth set.
    This shall be their first blended pair ultimate collectively as they gear up for the Tokyo Olympics in lower than a month’s time.
    “We really shot very well. I’m very happy. We wanted to win, because I’ve never been to the mixed team final (with Atanu). I really wanted that,” Deepika, who final made an look within the blended pair ultimate within the 2016 World Cup, stated after the win.
    Talking about their chemistry, Deepika, who bought married to the India primary Atanu in June 2020 after a two-year courtship, stated: “You can say we’re a special team. We don’t have any problem with communication and understanding each other. But we’re also professional archers.”
    The eight-time world champion Deepika has 5 silver and three bronze medals within the blended pair occasion however she is but to win a gold.
    Atanu and Deepika began off on a spectacular notice with a straight set 6-0 win over twelfth ranked Great Britain within the spherical of 16. In the quarters, they bought the higher of upper ranked USA by an equivalent 6-0 margin.
    In the ladies’s compound particular person part, Jyothi Surekha Vennam made a quarterfinal exit shedding to Andrea Becerra of Mexico 143-147.

  • Team bonding in quarantine to assist India in final Tokyo qualifiers: Deepika Kumari

    The 10-day quarantine interval in Paris did wonders for staff bonding, feels seasoned Deepika Kumari as Indian ladies’s archery staff will get prepared for his or her last Tokyo Olympic qualifier occasion on Sunday.
    The world quantity three Deepika, who has already certified for Olympics within the particular person recurve class, has a unique problem this time although.
    As the senior-most archer, she has to carry out the very best from her staff, comprising teenager Komalika Bari and fast-improving Ankita Bhakat — the one change to the staff that missed out on the staff quota from the World Championships in 2019.
    “Normally, I stay aloof and take time to gel with the juniors but during this quarantine in Vichy, we would spend hours together after practice,” the senior-most Indian archer instructed PTI from Paris, forward of their ladies’s staff Final Qualifier for Tokyo Olympics on Sunday.
    “Transparency hona chaiye team game mein (transparency is key to team’s success) and I think it is helping us tremendously. I’m happy with the team coordination. We understand each other very well now.”
    “As a senior-most member of the team, the priority for me is to remain confident all the time so that it rubs off on them. Acha karna hai aur karwana bhi hai (I’ve to do well myself and also help bring out the best from them). It’s my duty,” Deepika, who’s certain for her third successive Olympics, mentioned.
    The ladies’s staff checked in forward of the boys’s and compound groups and entered a bio-secure bubble in Vichy, about 400kms from the venue Stade Charlety in Paris however they had been allowed to apply.
    “It’s their first time and it’s natural for them to be nervous. I don’t want my team to miss out after one poor round. My role will always be to push them and take them to a zone so that they can give their best for qualification,” Deepika, who just lately turned 27, mentioned.
    The Indian ladies’s recurve staff of Deepika Laishram Bombayla Devi and Komalika had slumped to a 2-6 loss in opposition to lower-ranked Belarus to crash out of the Tokyo 2020 quota race on the World Archery Championships in Den Bosch, the Netherlands two years in the past.
    Since then India made a solitary change with Ankita making the lower and it labored wonders as they gained a dramatic last in opposition to Mexico on the first stage of the World Cup in Guatemala City in April. It was Indian ladies’s staff’s first gold medal since Wroclaw-2014.
    “She (Ankita) is showing a lot of maturity in shooting, she has improved a lot score wise too. We just have to fine-tune a few aspects in her mental game and we have started working on it,” Deepika mentioned.
    On her Jharkhand teammate Komalika, Deepika mentioned: “She is young and fearless. If she gets the right kind of coaching and mental training, she can go all the way.”
    “There will at all times be a little bit of stress on us, it’s regular. In truth, a little bit of stress is sweet to carry out your finest. You shouldn’t be overconfident. Rest we are going to see the way it goes through the precise match. accordingly we are going to deal with it there.
    “There has been a lot of improvement. We are shooting consistently well and confident of qualifying,” she mentioned.Incidentally, it’s in the identical venue of Paris that Deepika had clinched a World Cup Final silver eight years in the past.
    “Yes, I remember every bit of it and certainly it will boost my confidence,” she signed off.

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • World Cup Archery Stage 1: Deepika Kumari-led girls’s recurve staff beats Mexico to win gold

    Indian girls’s recurve staff held its nerve to pip Mexico 5-4 (27-26) in an intriguing ultimate to seize a gold medal within the Archery World Cup Stage 1 right here on Sunday.
    Locked 4-4 within the shoot-off, the Indian staff comprising seasoned Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari shot 27 to edge out their Mexican rivals by one level and declare their first World Cup staff gold after seven years.

    Team India 🇮🇳 take recurve girls’s staff gold in Guatemala City! 👏 🥉 🏹#ArcheryWorldCup pic.twitter.com/LhtnCXtXaD
    — World Archery (@worldarchery) April 25, 2021
    This is Deepika’s fifth World Cup stage occasion staff gold medal.
    Deepika confirmed utmost composure to drill an ideal 10 within the ultimate arrow of the shoot-off to place stress on the 2012 London Olympics silver medalist Aida Roman who wanted a 9 however solely to float away for a poor eight rating.
    This was India’s fifth recurve girls’s staff gold in World Cup having gained in Shanghai- 2011, Medellin-2013, Wroclaw-2013 and 2014 beforehand.

  • 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.

  • Women’s recurve group tops qualification, Indians storm to QF in 3 occasions

    Indian recurve archers had a blazing begin on their return to the World Cup after almost two years as the ladies’s group topped the {qualifications} with Ankita Bhakat and Deepika Kumari’s tremendous present within the opening stage right here.
    Atanu Das grabbed the second spot behind world primary Brady Elison to propel the boys’s group to a 3rd place end, as India have certified straight to quarterfinals within the males’s and girls’s group occasion apart from blended part the place Das and Deepika might be in motion collectively for the primary time after their marriage final 12 months.
    “Mixed team, you know, I like very much. If I get to play with Deepika then it’s awesome. We’re a couple you know and then we’d be the first couple to play in the Olympics. So it’s fun,” Das, who final gained a blended pair bronze with Deepika on the Asian Championships, advised PTI.
    Das and Deepika, who’ve gained many worldwide medals collectively prior to now, will tackle France within the blended group quarterfinals, whereas the top-seed girls’s group will face hosts Guatemala within the last-eight. The males’s group, however, will tackle the winners of Spain and Guatemala of their final eight conflict.

    #Archery | Guatemala Archery World Cup @ArcherAtanu scored 680 in males’s recurve to complete 2nd, #AnkitaBhakat scored 673 & @ImDeepikaOk scored 671 to complete 2nd and third in girls’s recurve.
    Well executed group! 🇮🇳👏👏@KirenRijiju pic.twitter.com/F0fJYpDycV
    — Dept of Sports MYAS (@IndiaSports) April 21, 2021
    India have been taking part in within the World Cup circuit for the primary time after their look within the Stage 4 in Berlin in July 2019 and the Asian Championship in Bangkok in November 2019 was their final worldwide look, albeit underneath the aegis of ‘World Archery’ after the nationwide federation was suspended.
    “It’s been a while since we played any International tournaments because of COVID-19… So it’s a very good tournament, very good weather, and I really enjoyed shooting,” stated Das.
    The match serves as a preparation for the Tokyo Olympics in lower than 100 days and the Indian males’s group which has certified will look to benefit from it.
    The jet-lagged Indians confirmed little signal of rustiness as Deepika led with 339 factors on the midway mark — 4 forward of eventual topper Ana Vazquez and Bhakat.
    But the previous world primary fell off the tempo within the again finish, having to hurry her final arrows as she together with Ankita slotted in second and third locations with 673 and 671 factors respectively.
    Reigning under-18 world champion Komalika Bari took the twelfth place with 659 factors because the Indian girls’s group comfortably grabbed the pole place, 14 factors away from Mexico to seal its last-eight place.
    India primary Das completed 14 factors behind USA’s Elison who dominated the qualification spherical to complete with 694 factors, his second-highest rating spherical rating of his profession.
    A winner of two silver and one bronze medals on the Olympics, Ellison led Das by 4 factors on the midway break however made fast progress within the again finish to breach the psychological 690-barrier.
    Pravin Jadhav (fifteenth) and B Dhiraj (twentieth) made up for his or her third group rankings on a day senior most archer Tarundeep Rai completed twenty second with a poor present of 663 factors.
    The recurve archers have been combating it out solely because the federation withdrew the compound group boasting the Asian champions duo of Abhishek Verma and Jyothi Surekha on the eve of their departure after their coach had examined “positive” for COVID-19.
    The subsequent day, it got here to mild that the coach had a “false positive” report at Sonepat however the harm had been executed by then.
    Delayed by a 12 months as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, Tuesday’s qualification spherical on the Sports Complex Los Arcos welcomed the beginning of the fifteenth season of the worldwide circuit.
    More than 18 months have handed since the newest Archery World Cup Final came about in Moscow.