Archery World Cup Stage 3: Indian men’s recurve team wins bronze

06-16-2023
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The third stage of the Archery World Cup is currently taking place in Medellin, Colombia, with some of the best archers in the world competing.

India's men's recurve contingent bought home another bronze medal for the country on Thursday. 

The trio of Dhiraj Bommadevara, Mrinal Chauhan and Tushar Shelke first defeated Canada in the second round, after receiving a bye in the opener, followed by a win against hosts Colombia in the quarter-final. They lost to China in the semi-finals by 5-1, before defeating the Republic of Korea 5-3 to clinch the bronze medal.

"It’s a very successful team event,” Dhiraj Bommadevara told World Archery. “We are happy but not satisfied because we are going towards gold medals."

Women's recurve team bows out in second round

In the recurve women’s team event, the Indian trio of Bhajan Kaur, Sangeeta and Tanisha Verma, seeded seventh, lost to France 5-3 in the second round after receiving a bye in the opening round.

Abhishek Verma shocks top seed to enter semi-finals

India's Abhishek Verma reached the semifinals of the men's compound event after a shock win over top seed Mike Schloesser in a tense shoot-off.

Verma and his opponent were tied at 148 after four ends and also shot 10s in the shootoff. However, the Indian progressed to the last four as his arrow was closer to the center in the shooroff.

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