Archery World Cup: India crash out of recurve team events

Vijayawada-based worldwide archer Dhiraj Bommadevara gained silver and bronze medals on the World Cup Stage I lately.
| Photo Credit: Okay.V.S. Giri

It was a well-known script for Indian archers as they had been eradicated by heavyweights Korea within the quarterfinals of the lads’s recurve team occasion within the World Cup Stage 1 right here on May 18.

The Indian trio of Dhiraj Bommadevara, Atanu Das and Neeraj Chauhan suffered a lopsided 0-6 (54-55, 56-57, 54-59) defeat by the hands of the top-seeded Korean team of Lee Woo Seok, Kim Je Deok and Kim Woojin.

The eighth seeded Indian males’s recurve team started its marketing campaign with a hard-fought 5-3 (57-57, 56-58, 57-56, 58-51) win over Chinese Taipei.

The ladies’s trio of Simranjeet Kaur, Avneet Kaur and Ankita Bhakat, which received the fourth seeding in team qualification, put up a sloppy present to make a first-round exit.

They misplaced out to lower-ranked Indonesia 1-5 (54-57, 57-57, 50-52) in a one-sided affair.

In the recurve team events, Indian hopes will now relaxation on the blended pair duo of Dhiraj Bommadevara and Simranjeet Kaur.

By advantage of ending fifth in qualifiers, they have a bye into the second spherical (pre-quarterfinals) within the recurve blended team draw of 32.