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India’s star archer Deepika Kumari also lost in the Individual category of the World Archery Championship 2025 on Thursday. At the same time, 15-year-old Gatha Khadke became the only recurve archer in the country to make it to the pre-quarterfinals of this season.
Deepika, who was participating for the sixth time in the World Championship, was defeated by Diananda Choirunisa of Indonesia 6-4 in a 5 set match in the Round of 32. While the 14th seeded saga defeated World No. 8 German Olympian Mitchell Cropen Bauur 6-4 in the third round.
All eyes will now be on the pre-quarterfinals on Friday in the ongoing World Championship in Gwangju city of South Africa. Where India’s young archer saga will face the biggest challenge of her career as Paris Olympic champion and world number one Lim Sea-Hyone. In another match, 22-year-old Korean player Lim defeated Ankita Bhagat 6-2 with six perfect 10 in two sets.
Last hope from saga, not winning medals for 6 years in recurve
For India, the young saga is the last hope and it will have to be seen whether the Pune player, who is debuting, gets the first medal to the country in the recurve category after Dan Bosch in 2019. The Indian men’s team then won the silver medal. After that, in the seasons of 2021 and 2023, the recurve archers returned empty handed. In the current tournament, India has won the historic gold in the men’s team category and silver medal in the mixed team. Both these medals came in the compound category.
The Indian team of Rishabh Yadav, Aman Saini and Prathamesh Fajy won gold by defeating France 235-233 in the final of the men’s compound category.
Deepika lost by putting 8 pointers on the occasion
The world’s number one archer Deepika started poorly. He started with a score of 25 in the first set, while Diananda took a 0–2 lead with a score of 27. The second set Deepika won with 28 points and scored 2-2.
The Indonesian player then hit two arrows perfect 10 and one in 9 in the third set. Due to which Deepika lost 27-29 and lagged behind 2-4. Both Deepika and Diananda gathered 29 in the fourth set, leading to Indonesia’s player 5-3.
Deepika targeted 8 points on the important occasion in the decisive set, leading to the score 27-27 and Diananda won the 6-4 match. Deepika failed to win the medal for the sixth time in the World Championship.
Deepika failed to win the medal for the sixth time in the World Championship.
Saga defeated world number-8 6-4
India’s young archer saga defeated Fatima Hussainley of Azerbarang in the first round by 7-1 (26-26, 27-25, 27-26, 28-24). Then defeated Thia Rogers of Britain from 6–0 (28–27, 27-26, 29-28).
The biggest exam of the saga was against the world number 8 German Olympian and former Bronze medalist of the World Cup against Mitchell Cropen Bauur, but the number 176 in the world rankings did not show any hurry and won the match 6–4. The Indian player won 28–26, 27–27, 27–28, 28–28, 28-27.
The saga Khadke defeated the archer of Germany.
The saga reached the pre-quarter finals in the debut World Cup
In July, Maharashtra’s saga, which made her senior category from the Madrid World Cup, traveled to the pre-quarter-finals there. He surprised everyone earlier this year by scoring 686 marks in qualification in National Trials. This was the highest score among all the players participating in the competition.
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