Patna, June 7, 2009
When it looked beach and breeze would deny India any medal on the final day of the stage III World Cup archery at Antalya, Indian ace Jayanta Talukdar chalked out a bronze medal victory in the individual recurve section on Sunday.
According to information reached here, the sixth-seeded Indian overcame two ends of poor shooting to subdue 24th ranked Italian Amedeo Tonelli 106-101 that enabled India to end the tournament with one silver (men’s recurve team) and two bronze medals (Talukdar and women’s recurve team).
The two Indian giant-killers, Kapil and Rimil Biruly, who eliminated reigning world champions Im Dong Hyun of Korea and Natalia Valeeva of Italy respectively in the earlier rounds of the recurve division, came a cropper in the quarterfinals. Kapil lost to Tonelli 102-108 and Rimil went out to fifth-ranked Ruyu Ouyang of China 104-109.
Talukdar progressed to semifinals by beating 14th seeded Bair Badenov of Russia 109-105 but lost to eventual gold medallist Simon Terry of Great Britain 107-112.
The Indian recurve pair of Rahul Banerjee and Reena Kumari, who made it to the knockout stage of the mixed pair event, lost to the top-seeded Korean pair of Im Dong Hyun and Ji Ye Kwak 130-141 and against lost 140-147 to the Russian pair in the play off for bronze medal.
Source: Indian Archery Association press release
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