Twenty-one-year-old debutant B. Dhiraj carried out properly to gather a person bronze medal and was a part of the Indian men’s recurve team which claimed silver on the concluding day of the Archery World Cup Stage-1 in Antalya on Sunday.
The Indian team of Dhiraj, Atanu Das and Tarundeep Rai, misplaced 4-5 (54-55, 50-56, 59-58, 56-55, 28-28) to China, returning to occasion after 4 years, within the title conflict through shoot-off.
India, which received a team gold manner again in Shanghai in 2010, made a very good comeback from 0-4 to stage the match 4-4 and compelled a shoot-off. Both groups shot 28 apiece however China received the tie-breaker due to the one X it obtained.
In the person competitions, Dhiraj received the primary two units earlier than shedding 4-6 (27-26, 28-27, 28-29, 26-28, 28-30) to Olympian Dan Olaru of Moldova within the semifinals.
Dhiraj raised the bar and defeated Kazakhstan’s Ilfat Abdullin 7-3 (28-28, 29-26, 28-29, 29-27, 29-27) in a closely-fought duel to take the bronze medal.
Indian archers had bagged two gold medals in compound occasions on Saturday.
