India reached the final of the men’s recurve team event for the first time in nine years after registering three wins in the ongoing Archery World Cup Stage 1 on Thursday. The Indian trio of Atanu Das, B Dheeraj and Tarundeep Rai will take on China in the men’s recurve team event in their quest for India’s first World Cup gold after 13 years. The men’s recurve team, which had a first-round bye after qualifying as the fourth seed, faced a tough challenge, defeating 13th seed Japan 5-4 in the shoot-off to win 29-28. Entered.
The Indians scored two perfect 10s from three attempts (10, 10, 9) in the tie-breaker after which both the teams were tied 4-4 (49-52, 57-52, 54-51, 52-57). ) after four sets of rapid shooting. Thereafter, it was smooth sailing for the Indian trio who defeated 12th seed Chinese Taipei and ninth seed Netherlands by identical 6-2 margins to set up a summit clash with second seed China.
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Recurve trio of __ @ArcherAtanu, @tarundeepray And #bDheeraj beat Netherlands 6-2 in the semi-finals.They will face China in the final on 23 Apr 23#Indian archery #archery world cup #TeamIndia #worldarchery #ntpc archery pic.twitter.com/VLYTmHdMZV– Archery Association of India (@india_archery) April 20, 2023
The Netherlands will take on Slovenia in the bronze play-off. It was an easy out against Chinese Taipei as the Indian men’s recurve team took 4-10s including an X before sealing the points 6-2 (55-54, 57-54, 51-53, 58-56). Took a lead of 0. (closer to the center).
Next, it was the Netherlands who were on a high after eliminating top seed and tournament hosts Turkey (6-0), a team that included reigning Olympic champion Mette Gazoz. The Dutch took a 2-0 lead but the Indians came back strongly to win 6-2 (56-58, 57-53, 57-55, 56-54).
Turkish Delight
Incidentally, it is in the same Mediterranean seaside resort of Antalya where the Indian men’s recurve team tasted its first success at the World Cup in 2008. The team of Jayant Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia defeated their Malaysian rivals 218-. En route to the first ever recurve men’s team gold medal at the 215 World Cup.
Since then, the Indian men’s recurve team has won five gold medals at the World Cup.
India last won a World Cup gold medal in the men’s recurve team event in 2010 in Shanghai. Rai, a 39-year-old Army jawan, was also a member of the gold-winning team in Shanghai when he along with Talukdar and Banerjee beat Japan by 224. -220 in the final.
India reached the final twice in 2014 – Stage 2 Medellin and Stage 4 Wroclaw – but on both occasions the team returned with silver medals. In Medellin, India lost to Korea in a tie-breaker, while Mexico won the gold medal with a 5–3 win in Wroclaw. Korea is out of the World Cup because of their selections which are running simultaneously.