Patna, June 5, 2009
It was a great day for the Indians at the World Cup archery Stage III at Antalya, Turkey, on Friday.
According to information reached here, two youngest members of the contingent, Kapil and Rimil Biruly, annihilated world champions in the individual elimination round and moved into the quarterfinals. The men’s recurve team also moved into the final against Korea. The women’s team lost to Russia in the semifinals and will square off against Japan for the bronze medal.
Adding icing to the cake was Jayanta Talukdar’s progress to the quarterfinals thus keeping alive his chances making it to the World Cup finals at Copenhagen later this year.
Kapil and Rimil, putting behind the poor qualification scores, produced their best performance of their career by beating 2007 Leipzig World Championship winners, Im Dong Hyun of Korea and Natalia Valeeva of Italy respectively. Kapil ousted the top seed in the second round 115-111 for a rarest victory against a Korean. Rimil downed Natalia 108-105.
Talukdar scored his personal best, a world-class, 118 in going past American Brady Ellison who replied with 111.
Other Indians failed to go past the second round in the recurve section. A lot of expected from Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia in the men’s section, Dola Banerjee, Reena Kumari and L. Bombayla Devi in the women’s category.
The compound archers, as usual, lost in the early rounds. The men’s team fell to Canada 215-223 while the women went out to Greece 213-217.
Source: Indian Archery Association press release
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