Women’s recurve group tops qualification, Indians storm to QF in 3 occasions

Indian recurve archers had a blazing begin on their return to the World Cup after almost two years as the ladies’s group topped the {qualifications} with Ankita Bhakat and Deepika Kumari’s tremendous present within the opening stage right here.
Atanu Das grabbed the second spot behind world primary Brady Elison to propel the boys’s group to a 3rd place end, as India have certified straight to quarterfinals within the males’s and girls’s group occasion apart from blended part the place Das and Deepika might be in motion collectively for the primary time after their marriage final 12 months.
“Mixed team, you know, I like very much. If I get to play with Deepika then it’s awesome. We’re a couple you know and then we’d be the first couple to play in the Olympics. So it’s fun,” Das, who final gained a blended pair bronze with Deepika on the Asian Championships, advised PTI.
Das and Deepika, who’ve gained many worldwide medals collectively prior to now, will tackle France within the blended group quarterfinals, whereas the top-seed girls’s group will face hosts Guatemala within the last-eight. The males’s group, however, will tackle the winners of Spain and Guatemala of their final eight conflict.

#Archery | Guatemala Archery World Cup @ArcherAtanu scored 680 in males’s recurve to complete 2nd, #AnkitaBhakat scored 673 & @ImDeepikaOk scored 671 to complete 2nd and third in girls’s recurve.
Well executed group! 🇮🇳👏👏@KirenRijiju pic.twitter.com/F0fJYpDycV
— Dept of Sports MYAS (@IndiaSports) April 21, 2021
India have been taking part in within the World Cup circuit for the primary time after their look within the Stage 4 in Berlin in July 2019 and the Asian Championship in Bangkok in November 2019 was their final worldwide look, albeit underneath the aegis of ‘World Archery’ after the nationwide federation was suspended.
“It’s been a while since we played any International tournaments because of COVID-19… So it’s a very good tournament, very good weather, and I really enjoyed shooting,” stated Das.
The match serves as a preparation for the Tokyo Olympics in lower than 100 days and the Indian males’s group which has certified will look to benefit from it.
The jet-lagged Indians confirmed little signal of rustiness as Deepika led with 339 factors on the midway mark — 4 forward of eventual topper Ana Vazquez and Bhakat.
But the previous world primary fell off the tempo within the again finish, having to hurry her final arrows as she together with Ankita slotted in second and third locations with 673 and 671 factors respectively.
Reigning under-18 world champion Komalika Bari took the twelfth place with 659 factors because the Indian girls’s group comfortably grabbed the pole place, 14 factors away from Mexico to seal its last-eight place.
India primary Das completed 14 factors behind USA’s Elison who dominated the qualification spherical to complete with 694 factors, his second-highest rating spherical rating of his profession.
A winner of two silver and one bronze medals on the Olympics, Ellison led Das by 4 factors on the midway break however made fast progress within the again finish to breach the psychological 690-barrier.
Pravin Jadhav (fifteenth) and B Dhiraj (twentieth) made up for his or her third group rankings on a day senior most archer Tarundeep Rai completed twenty second with a poor present of 663 factors.
The recurve archers have been combating it out solely because the federation withdrew the compound group boasting the Asian champions duo of Abhishek Verma and Jyothi Surekha on the eve of their departure after their coach had examined “positive” for COVID-19.
The subsequent day, it got here to mild that the coach had a “false positive” report at Sonepat however the harm had been executed by then.
Delayed by a 12 months as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, Tuesday’s qualification spherical on the Sports Complex Los Arcos welcomed the beginning of the fifteenth season of the worldwide circuit.
More than 18 months have handed since the newest Archery World Cup Final came about in Moscow.