Published By: Sports Desk
Last Updated: April 23, 2023, 16:36 IST
Tarundeep Rai, Atanu Das, Dhiraj Bommadevara (Twitter)
The Indian males’s recurve trio of Tarundeep Rai, Atanu Das and Dhiraj Bommadevara went down 4-5 (54-55, 50-56, 59-58, 56-55, 28-28*) to the Chinese unit of Li Zhongyuan, Qi Xiangshuo and Wei Shahoxu within the summit conflict
The Indian males’s recurve workforce signed off with a silver medal after taking place to China by the thinnest of margins in a shoot-off on the Archery World Cup Stage 1 on Sunday.
In pursuit of their first World Cup gold medal since 2010, the lads’s recurve workforce, comprising Tarundeep Rai, Atanu Das and Dhiraj Bommadevara, bounced again from being 0-4 all the way down to stage and pressure a shoot-off.
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But the trio went down 4-5 (54-55, 50-56, 59-58, 56-55, 28-28*) with the Chinese workforce of Li Zhongyuan, Qi Xiangshuo and Wei Shahoxu hitting an X (nearer to the centre) within the shoot-off in a dramatic end.
India now have two golds, one silver from Stage 1 of the meet, whereas Dhiraj can also be within the medal hunt in recurve particular person class.
In hindsight, the workforce would rue its pathetic second set the place it totalled simply 50 out of a potential 60, after hitting the crimson rings thrice (one 7 and two 8s) as China received by six factors to take a 4-0 lead.
India had a sluggish begin and China took the primary set by a slender one-point margin.
It was solely within the third set the workforce bucked as much as drill in a sequence 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 this point for the Indians as a gold medal continued to elude the Olympic recurve archers one more 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.
India have to this point received 5 gold medals within the males’s recurve workforce occasion.
It is on the identical Mediterranean coastal resort of Antalya the place the Indian males’s recurve workforce had tasted its first success in a World Cup approach again in 2008.
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India had final received a World Cup gold medal in males’s recurve workforce occasion in Shanghai in 2010.
The 39-year-old Army man Rai was additionally a member of the gold-winning aspect in Shanghai when he together with Jayanta Talukdar and Rahul Banerjee had defeated Japan 224-220 within the ultimate.
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