Indian women’s team in final

Patna, August 9, 2010: In a remarkable achievement, the Indian women’s team, comprising Dola Banerjee, L. Bombayla Devi and Deepika Kumari, made it to the final of the World Cup archery Stage III at Ogden (the US) on August 6, 2010. India will take on World Champion Korea in the summit clash.

According to information received here, sixth ranked India outplayed Georgia 220-201 points in the first round, ousted Spain in the quarterfinals at 218-182 and overcame second ranked China in the semifinals at 215-206.

Interestingly, Deepika, the youngest member of the team, won the world cadet recurve individual gold medal last year at the same venue.

The men’s recurve team, delivering medals of all hues since 2008, missed out this time losing to Italy in the quarterfinals. Tarundeep Rai, Mangal Singh and Kapil lost at 216-219 after defeating Colombia at 215-213 in the first round in a 16-team field.

Source: Indian Archery Association press release

Indian archers face early exit

Patna, August 8, 2010: Indian archers faced an early elimination in the individual round of the Archery World Cup State III at Ogden (US) on August 5, 2010.

According to information received here, only two women archers, Dola Banerjee and Deepika Kumari managed to reach the pre-quarterfinals before bowing out. Dola fell to Shanshan Zhu of China while Deepika lost to Joo Hyun-Jung of Korea.

L. Bombayla Devi crashed to Dola in the second round while Punya Prabha was defeated by Justyna Mospinek of Poland in the first round.

Tarundeep Rai bowed to Sebastian Rohrberg of Germany in the second round as veteran Mangal Singh Champia was no match to Elian Cuesta of Spain in the opening round. Kapil lost to Fujun Yong of China in the first round and debutant K. Shiva Shankar bowed to highly ranked Oh Jin Hyek of Korea.

Earlier on Wednesday, the men’s team stood third overall with a total of 1982. The women’s team ended sixth overall with 1915 points.

Source: Indian Archery Association press release