Archery World Cup: Deepika Kumari Returns To The Final After Three Years' Win Her Fifth Silver Medal

HomeSportsArchery World Cup: Deepika Kumari Returns To The Final After Three Years' Win Her Fifth Silver Medal Archery World Cup: Deepika Kumari Returns To The Final After Three Years' Win Her Fifth Silver Medal Deepika lost the summit clash 0-6 to China's Li Jiaman in the eight-archer field PTIUpdated: Monday, October 21, 2024, 01:57 PM IST India's premier recurve archer Deepika Kumari won her fifth silver medal at the World Cup Final after losing the summit clash 0-6 to China's Li Jiaman.

Returning to the World Cup Final after three years following the birth of her daughter in December 2022, four-time Olympian Deepika was seeded third in the eight-archer field.

She had a smooth run through the semifinals but probably the pressure of gold medal match got to her against fourth-seed Li Jiaman, a team silver medalist from the Paris Olympics.

It was Deepika's ninth appearance at the World Cup Final where she has also bagged a bronze.

Dola Banerjee is the only Indian archer to have won a gold in the World Cup Final, having topped the podium in Dubai 2007.

Let us know! 👂 What type of content would you like to see from us this year? — HubSpot (@HubSpot) The five-member Indian contingent, comprising three compound and two recurve archers, thus concluded their season-ending World Cup Final campaign with just one medal.

After a stellar semifinal win against Mexico's Alejandra Valencia, Deepika couldn’t maintain momentum.

She dropped the first set by a single point (26-27).

Despite improving in the second set, Li's flawless 30, including an X-ring shot, gave the Chinese archer a commanding a 2-0 lead (30-28).

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In the semifinals, Deepika triumphed over home favourite and Paris Olympics bronze medalist Valencia, edging her out 6-4 (29-28, 26-26, 26-29, 28-28, 28-27).

It also avenged Deepika's bronze medal loss to Valencia from the Yecheon World Cup earlier this year.

Deepika's campaign had begun with a dominant 6-0 victory over China's Yang Xiaolei (27-23, 29-22, 29-27).

Other results In the men's recurve section, Dhiraj Bommadevara, despite leading 4-2, could not hold off the challenge from South Korea’s Paris Olympics bronze medallist, Lee Woo Seok in the opening round and made an early exit .

In the men’s recurve, third-seeded Dhiraj was India’s sole qualifier.

Facing second seed Lee Woo Seok, Dhiraj started strongly, drawing the first set and winning the second.

However, he missed the opportunity to close out the match in the third by just one point with the South Korean drawing level before delivering flawless performances in the fourth and fifth sets.

Dhiraj eventually lost 4-6 (28-28, 29-26, 28-28, 26-30, 28-29).

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