Archery Association of India tweeted this picture of Dhiraj Bommadevara in motion.
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The Indian men’s recurve team clinched a silver medal after shedding to China by the thinnest of margins in a shoot-off on the Archery World Cup Stage 1 right here on Sunday.
In pursuit of their first World Cup gold medal since 2010, the men’s recurve team, comprising Tarundeep Rai, Atanu Das and Dhiraj Bommadevara, bounced again from 0-4 deficit to degree the scores and drive a shoot-off.
But the Indian trio went down 4-5 (54-55, 50-56, 59-58, 56-55, 28-28*) with the Chinese team of Li Zhongyuan, Qi Xiangshuo and Wei Shahoxu hitting an X (nearer to the centre) within the shoot-off in a dramatic end.
Dhiraj then went on to seize a second medal in his World Cup debut when the 20-year-old Army man defeated Ilfat Abdullin of Kazakhstan 7-3 (28-28, 29-26, 28-29, 29-27, 29-27) to bag the bronze in individual recurve part.
Dhiraj would remorse lacking out on a silver as he squandered a 4-0 lead towards Dan Olaru of Moldova to go down 6-4 (27-26, 28-27, 28-29, 26-28, 28-30) within the semifinal.
India thus ended their marketing campaign with two gold, one silver and one bronze medal from the occasion.
In hindsight, the team would rue its pathetic second set the place it totalled simply 50 out of a doable 60, after hitting the purple rings thrice (one 7 and two 8s) as China received by six factors to take a 4-0 lead.
India had a gradual begin and China took the primary set by a slender one-point margin.
It was solely within the third set the team bucked as much as drill in a collection of 5 10s, together with three Xs. China then cracked beneath strain within the fourth set which India received by a one-point margin.
It was so close to but to date for the Indians as a gold medal continued to elude the Olympic recurve archers for one other time.
In 2014, India got here near profitable the World Cup twice in Stage 2 Medellin and Stage 4 Wroclaw, however on each events they ended up shedding within the remaining.
India have to date received 5 gold medals within the men’s recurve team occasion.
It is on the identical Turkish metropolis of Antalya the place the Indian men’s recurve team had tasted its first success in a World Cup approach again in 2008.
India had final received a World Cup gold medal in men’s recurve team occasion in Shanghai in 2010.
The 39-year-old Army man Rai was additionally a member of the gold-winning facet in Shanghai when he together with Jayanta Talukdar and Rahul Banerjee had defeated Japan 224-220 within the remaining.
