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After the Paris Olympic 2024, India’s Recurve Archery failed once again on the big stage. On Wednesday, the Indian women’s team led by Deepika Kumari lost the bronze medal match at the World Archery Championship. Not only this, our recurve archers could not win medals even in mixed pair and mens category individual events.
Deepika Kumari, Gatha Khadke and Ankit Bhagat’s Indian trio were defeated by South Korea 5-3 by South Korea 5-3 by South Korea 5-3.
India got the last medal of the World Championship in the 2019 season in the Recurve category. When the Indian men’s team won the silver medal. After that, in the seasons of 2021 and 2023, the recurve archers returned empty handed.
The Indian recurve women’s team was defeated by South Korea 5-3.
Could not take advantage of the mistakes of the hosts
South Korea’s team made a lot of mistakes in the bronze medal match, but the Indian trio failed to take advantage of it. At one time, the match was 3-3 equal, but the team failed to win the bronze medal.
After losing the first set from 51-54, the Indian team pressurized the Korea team that won 10 consecutive Olympic gold by equaling the second set from 10 points to 57-57.
The Indian team won the third set from 57-54 to score 3-3, but Korea won the fourth set 56-54 by winning Triple Gold in Triple Gold and Paris Olympic champion Lynn C Hyon.
Deepika Kumari during the bronze medal match.
Men archers have already been out
In the mixed category, Deepika and Neeraj Chauhan suffered 4-5 (18–19) against the Japan pair of Nanami Asakuno and Yuki Kavata in the shoot-off in a very tough match. Indian men’s archers have already been out of the individual category and the compound team has ended its campaign, so the Indian recurve team will now expect to save some respect in the women’s individual category.
India has won only 2 medals so far
India has won two medals so far, both in the compound class. The men’s team won the gold medal for the first time in this competition. While Rishabh Yadav and Jyoti Surekha Vannam achieved silver in the mixed team category. Rahul, who was making his debut among the male archers, impressed the most. He made it to the third round but lost 5-6 (8–10) against Alexandre Machawariyani of Georgia in the shoot-off.
The most experienced player of the Indian team and Olympian Dheeraj Bomadevara received the tough draw. He faced former Olympic champion Turkish Met Gazz in the first round itself. Dheeraj lost 2–6 in a one-sided match. Neeraj also suffered a 0–6 defeat in a straight set against Uzbekistan’s Bobrajabov Beckjod in a one-sided match.
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