Indian compound archery falls in the World Cup; Archer knocked before the medal round, big names disappointed. More sports news
New Delhi: Indian campus archer failed to secure the posts during medal rounds during the Archery World Cup Stage 3 individual category competitions on Friday.After his impressive performance in Shanghai, where India claimed two gold, one silver and four bronze medals behind South Korea, they are still waiting for their first medal here.In the women’s individual section, the fourth seeded Madhura Dhamangonkar, who won the last World Cup, suffered a defeat against Mexico’s fifth seed Mariana Bernal with a score of 152–159.Mariana maintained the entire stable performance, while the melodious could not maintain speed after scoring a potential 33 to 29 in the early stages.World champion Aditi Swamy also faced elimination in the quarter-finals, leading to 147–152 defeat to Mexican Second Seed Andrea Besera.In men’s competition, thirteenth seed Rishabh Yadav was defeated by French Archer Nicholas Girrd, 28th position, with a score of 149–157 in the quarter-finals.Earlier, Yadav defeated senior compatriot Abhishek Verma 157–154 in the pre-Wront final.World champion Ojus Dotel, while losing 157–161, experienced an unexpected first round elimination of American James Lutz.Indian compound archers showed difficulty in adaptation to the new scoring system introduced at this stage.From Antalya leg, ‘X’ ring, being the most introductory circle, now gives importance to 11 points, which increases the round (three arrows) by 30 to 33.On Thursday, India was already removed from the team’s programs in both the recurrence and compound divisions.Now they aim to improve their campaign through the mixed team event set later today.Additional expectations repeat individual events.
