World Cup Archery Stage 1: Deepika Kumari-led girls’s recurve staff beats Mexico to win gold
1 min read Indian girls’s recurve staff held its nerve to pip Mexico 5-4 (27-26) in an intriguing ultimate to seize a gold medal within the Archery World Cup Stage 1 right here on Sunday.
Locked 4-4 within the shoot-off, the Indian staff comprising seasoned Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari shot 27 to edge out their Mexican rivals by one level and declare their first World Cup staff gold after seven years.
Team India 🇮🇳 take recurve girls’s staff gold in Guatemala City! 👏 🥉 🏹#ArcheryWorldCup pic.twitter.com/LhtnCXtXaD
— World Archery (@worldarchery) April 25, 2021
This is Deepika’s fifth World Cup stage occasion staff gold medal.
Deepika confirmed utmost composure to drill an ideal 10 within the ultimate arrow of the shoot-off to place stress on the 2012 London Olympics silver medalist Aida Roman who wanted a 9 however solely to float away for a poor eight rating.
This was India’s fifth recurve girls’s staff gold in World Cup having gained in Shanghai- 2011, Medellin-2013, Wroclaw-2013 and 2014 beforehand.
