Paris Olympics 2024: Dhiraj Bommadevara, Ankita Bhakat Shine As Indian Archery Teams Secure Direct Quarterfinal Berths

Paris: Led by the in-diversity Dhiraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat, India’s marketing crusade on the Paris Olympics began on a considerable note because the nation’s archers secured a direct entry into the quarterfinals of every and every the fellows’s and women’s team movements after completing third and fourth respectively within the ranking round here on Thursday.

Debutants Dhiraj and Ankita’s first-class prepare within the qualifications helped India finish within the pinnacle 4, giving them worthy attracts to clinch an elusive Olympic medal in archery.

The pinnacle 4 within the team standings correct now raise to the quarterfinals, even as these ending between fifth to twelfth play the Spherical of Sixteen fixtures.

The Indian guys’s team is seeded third, for that cause they are going to not characteristic within the equal pool because the invincible Koreans within correct here round. Now, every and every the Indian teams need just two wins for securing Olympics medals.

Dhiraj, the arena cup bronze-medallist, who defeated Tokyo Olympics silver winner Mauro Nespoli in Antalya, lived as much as the expectations by completing fourth within the persona round.

The duo of Ankita and Dhiraj, who was the superstar of the day with an excessive-best efficiency within the second 0.5 of of his opposition, will most characteristically be seeded fifth within the blended team round of Sixteen experience.

India’s blended team performed on the fifth target with 1347 points. Dhiraj got 681 even as Ankita scored 666 before now within the day.

The blended team score depends on summing definitely the right persona score from the women’s and guys’s persona experience.

The Indian guys’s team made it to the quarter-finals by completing third within the ranking round with 2013 points.

Dhiraj shone with a fourth-spot finish in persona part with 681 points. Performing in his fourth Olympics, Tarundeep Rai ended 14th with 674 points even as Pravin Jadhav performed thirty ninth with 658 points.

Korea’s Woojin Kim and Je Deok Kim bagged the pinnacle two positions with scores of 688 and 682 respectively. Germany’s Florian Unruh was third with 681.

Before within the day, Games debutant Ankita left on the lower back of seasoned campaigners like Deepika Kumari to emerge because definitely the right-put Indian archer at Eleventh within the women’s persona qualifications because the nation secured a quarterfinal spot by completing fourth.

The 26-12 months-out of date Ankita was the pinnacle-ranked Indian female, followed by Bhajan Kaur (twenty second with 559 points) and Deepika (twenty third with 658 points).

India grabbed the fourth spot by scoring 1983 points. South Korea topped the standings with 2046 points. China performed runners-up even as Mexico grabbed the third spot.

India will face the winner of the competition between France and Netherlands within the quarterfinals.

In the experience that they clear the quarters, India will most characteristically be headed for a semifinal showdown with heavyweights Korea.

The Korean women’s team has been invincible within the Olympics, triumphing a ninth straight medal in Tokyo three years within the past.

In the persona part, Korea’s Lim Sihyeon smashed a global file score of 694 to pinnacle the standings, even as her compatriot Suhyeon Nam scored 688 points to accomplish second.

China’s Yang Xiaolei was third with 673.

Ankita, who hails from Bengal and represents Tata Academy, was the shock equipment on the day from the Indian viewpoint, even as 4-time Olympian Deepika faltered to return her worst ever qualification culmination on the Games.

Halfway by the fellows’s qualification round, India were put sixth within the team experience, with Rai on 14th, Dhiraj on Twenty fourth and Jadhav on thirty seventh respectively.

After that, India made a fine recovery and jumped to the third spot after set seven. The team then accelerated its target as well by transferring to second after set nine.

On the preference hand, India dropped lower back to third after set 10 as South Korea maintained their shop of the pinnacle spot.

India will face both Turkey or Colombia within the fellows’s quarterfinals.