Deepika Kumari-led Women's Recurve Team Wins Gold at World Cup Archery Stage 1
Indian women's recurve team held its nerve to pip Mexico 5-4 (27-26) in an intriguing final to grab a gold medal in the Archery World Cup Stage 1 on Sunday.
Locked 4-4 in the shoot-off, the Indian team comprising seasoned Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari shot 27 to edge out their Mexican rivals by one point and claim their first World Cup team gold after seven years.
This is Deepika’s fifth World Cup stage event team gold medal. Deepika showed utmost composure to drill a perfect 10 in the final arrow of the shoot-off to put pressure on the 2012 London Olympics silver medalist Aida Roman who needed a nine but only to drift away for a poor eight score.
This was India’s fifth recurve women’s team gold in World Cup having won in Shanghai- 2011, Medellin-2013, Wroclaw-2013 and 2014 previously.
Mixed team (Deepika Kumari & Atanu Das) won Bronze medal by defeating USA team
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Wow we won fkin 7 golds out of 10 in girls' category
That is some feat 😮❤🇮🇳🇮🇳💪💪
Great work indian boxing association
But due to hard quarantine rule (14 day quarantine), these athletes are not travelling to Turkey.
Now our Federation is planning to arrange training-cum-competition tour in Czech Republic.
Great performance overall.
Last time we won just 2 bronze in Men's section.. Definitely an improvement..with a total of 4 medals(1 Gold and 3 Silver)..
Total of 11 medals out of 20 is maximum along with Russia. Moreover, 8 Golds and 3 Bronze in unheard off..
It means Boxing is in good hands, literally...
I guess Russia also won 11 medals. But overall table, we are superior to Russia as we won 8 golds and we are in 1st position.
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