India In Archery World Cup Stage 2: The Indian women’s archery team won the bronze medal in the recurve event of the World Cup stage two in Gwangzhou, South Korea on Thursday, 19 May 2022. With this, his number of medals in this World Cup increased to three. The Indian women’s team comprising Riddhi Fore, Komolika Bari and Ankita Bhagat finished third in the bronze medal playoff after beating Chinese Taipei 6-2 (56-52, 54-51, 54-55, 55-54) in a one-sided contest. Did. The Indian men’s team, however, suffered a quarter-final loss to their lower-ranked side France.
The Indian women’s team lost 2-6 (53-55, 57-55, 51-53, 43-53) to local gold medal contenders South Korea in the semi-finals. It was not that the top seeded team had scored some great scores, but the Indian women succumbed to the pressure. Due to this the Indian team got to play the bronze medal match.
Earlier, the trio of Neeraj Chauhan, who made their debut with the experienced pair of Tarundeep Rai and Jayanta Talukdar, lost 2-6 (54-57, 55-52, 53-55, 47-53) to 15th seeded France. . On Wednesday, the men’s compound team had ensured at least a silver medal by reaching the final.
The men’s compound team defeated world number one American archery team in the quarterfinals and South Korea in the semifinals. Abhishek Verma, Aman Saini and Rajat Chauhan performed better than expected. They defeated America 234-238 in the quarterfinals. After this, defeating South Korea in the shoot-off in the semi-finals, secured a place in the final. In the final, they will face the world number four team France.
Earlier, the women’s compound team opened India’s account by winning the bronze medal. The Indian women’s compound team of Avneet Kaur, Muskan Kirar and Priya Gurjar were defeated by South Korea by two points in the semi-finals. However, Indian women defeated Turkey 232-231 to win the bronze medal.