DEN BOSCH (The Netherlands): Indian men’s recurve archery team secured the Olympic quota for the 2020 Tokyo Games by storming into the quarterfinals of the World Championships, but there was heartbreak in the shop for the fancied women’s aspect on Wednesday.
The guys’ crew of Tarundeep Rai, Atanu Das, and Pravin Jadhav put up an excellent show, posting a five-3 win over Canada to the comfortable 3-athlete quota for the first time since the 2012 London Olympics.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, India had character access to Das, who had made a quarterfinal exit.
“We, in the end, made it. We are gelling properly as a group and looking forward to Tokyo now. This is the moment to maintain going for 2020,” -time Olympian Rai, a member of the London Olympics, said.
“I’m positive the warring parties had been feeling equal stress. So the important thing became to preserve calm, and it worked nicely for us,” the 35-12 months-antique Army archer said.
But it grew to become a day of contrasting fortunes for the lady’s recurve group as senior archer Laishram Bombayla Devi misfired as soon as, while Komalika Bari uncovered her inexperience, costing them the match 2-6 towards decrease-seeded Belarus.
The girls’ team could have a remaining hazard in 2020 World Cup Stage III in Berlin, wherein pinnacle three within the second match will grasp the final Olympic quotas.
Blaming good fortune, the three-time Olympian Bombayla said: “In practice, I changed into shooting nicely, but there was a misfortune, and something occurred in the course of the opposition, and I misfired. It might have been a smooth win. We will strive our fine subsequent time.”
Bombayla’s misfire meant India shot a poor forty-three in opposition to Belarus’ fifty-two within the first set. In the second set, Bombayla and Komalika hit three and five, and it proved too much for Deepika Kumari, as they misplaced 44-52 to trail 0-4.
The trio ultimately got suitable inside the 0.33 set, triumphing it fifty-three-fifty one to make it 4-2, but Karyna Kazlouskaya, Karyna Dziominskaya, Hanna Marusava sealed the problem 6-2 with a 53-51 win in the fourth set.
Indian crew within the ladies’ compound phase, a non-Olympic class, entered the quarterfinals with a commanding 236-226 win over France.
Led by using Muskan Kirar’s exquisite show, India women’s compound crew (2099 factors) completed 1/3 within the ranking round at the back of Colombia (2111) and Korea (2101) and superior immediately into the pre-quarters.
The 19-year-old from Jabalpur shot fifty-four perfect arrows, which blanketed 24 instances X (closest to the center) for an overall score of 701 points over the seventy-two-arrow 50-meter ratings spherical.
Having completed within the top-eight, Muskan Kirar was given a bye into the spherical of 32 inside the individual segment.
Twenty-ninth seed Abhishek Verma, Bhagwan Das (35th) and Rajat Chauhan (88th) of men’s, and Jyothi Surekha Vennam (seventeenth) of women’s advanced to round 3 in the compound phase.
India additionally remained inside the medal fray inside the compound blended pair occasion wherein Verma and Muskan entered into the remaining 16 at once with a pinnacle eight finish within the ranking spherical.
India faces Germany in the compound combined pair pre-quarterfinals.
The compound men’s team, who got the 14th region in the rating, defeated their Spanish fighters 235-229 in the first spherical but handiest to quit their marketing campaign after losing to 0.33 seeded Turkey 234-238.
Up in opposition to a team who secured a bye into the last-16 after finishing sixth inside the ranking round, the Indian trio of Rai, Das, and Jadhav began off with three best shots, which include one X to take the primary set with a one-factor (56-55) lead within the guys recurve spherical two.
They hung on to their momentum and scored one point extra than the primary set with another best start inside the 2nd set wherein the trio hit Xs and one 10 to side out their opponents yet again by way of one factor (fifty-seven-56) and race to a 4-zero lead.
