Patna, September 4, 2010: India picked up one gold, one silver and a bronze from the World Cup archery Stage IV meet at Shanghai on Saturday. The Indian men's recurve team, consisting of Jayanta Talukdar, Tarundeep Rai and Rahul Banerjee, annexed the gold medal defeating Japan by 224 points to 220.
According to information reached here, teenager Deepika Kumari, however, failed to make history succumbing to the intense pressure of playing her maiden senior final and lost to Korea's Bo Bae Ki to settle for silver. In the best of five sets final, Deepika went out of the contest after losing the first two sets. Though she tied the third one for a point, the Korean came up with three perfect 10s to seal the victory. The set scores in favour of the Korean were 29-27, 29-27, 28-28, 30-27. Two points are awarded for winning a set and one point for a tie.
Jayanta Talukdar gave India the men's individual recurve bronze medal. With a two wins and a loss against Athens Olympic champion Marco Galiazzo of Italy Talukdar won the fourth meeting between the two with a measure of comfort. The Indian ended with seven points as against the Italian's three. The set score in favour of Talukdar were 28-29, 30-26, 28-28, 29-27, 28-27.
Deepika Kumari and Talukdar also ensured that they qualify for the Edinburgh World Cup finals on September 18 and 19. Talukdar will be joined by Brady Ellison (U.S.A.), Galiazzo, Im Dong-Hyun, Kim Woojin (both Korea), Michele Frangilli (Italy) and Simon Terry (Great Britain).
Deepika will be with Bo Bae Kim, Yun-Ok-Hee (both Korea), Guo Faping (China), Victoriya Koval (Ukraine), Elena Kuznetsova (Belarus) and Justyna Mospinek (Poland). Seven men and as many women have also been selected in the compound bow section.
The host will field one wild card entry in each of the four events.
Talukdar has twice entered the final in 2006 and 2009 but failed to win the top place. This is his third entry. Dola Banerjee qualified for the final at Dubai in 2007 and won it. Deepkia is the second Indian woman to make it to the final.
Source: Indian Archery Association press release
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