Friday, June 22, 2012

Archery News
At Final Olympics Qualification Tournament 2012, Ogden, USA

Recurve Men Team
Final
India l Japan 218-221

[SF] India bt Australia 221-209
[QF] India bt Canada 224-216
[R1] India bt Norway 224-207

Indian men's archery Recurve team comprising Tarundeep Rai, Jayanta Talukdar and Rahul Banerjee secured London Olympic berth beating Australians in the semi-final of final qualifiers at Ogden ... Top 3 teams from these qualifiers were going to qualify ... So Japan and Chinese Taipei r qualified for London Olympics with India.
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At Archery World Cup-3 2012, Ogden, USA

Recurve Men Team
Final
India vs USA

[SF] India bt Italy 220-218
[QF] India bt Malaysia 223-216
[R1] India bt Netherlands 229-221

Recurve Men Individual
Bronze Medal
Tarundeep Rai (IND) vs Gael Prevost (FRA)

[SF] Tarundeep Rai (IND) l Laurence Godfrey (GBR) 5-6 (26-30, 26-30, 28-26, 29-28, 28-28 T8-T10)
[QF] Tarundeep Rai (IND) bt Michele Frangilli (ITA) 6-5 (28-28, 29-27, 28-28, 23-24, 27-27 T9*-T9)
[R4] Tarundeep Rai (IND) bt Simon Terry (GBR) 6-2 (29-28, 23-28, 28-26, 26-25)
[R3] Tarundeep Rai (IND) bt Bato Tsynguev (RUS) 7-1 (27-27, 30-28, 28-27, 27-25)

[R2] Jayanta Talukdar (IND) l Marco Galiazzo (ITA) 2-6 (24-30, 29-26, 27-29, 28-30)
[R2] Tarundeep Rai (IND) bt Cheng Pang Wang (TPE) 6-4 (25-29, 27-25, 27-28, 28-26, 26-25

[R1] Tarundeep Rai (IND) bt Raymond Paguia (PHI) 6-2 (25-25, 30-26, 28-27, 26-26)
[R1] Rahul Banerjee (IND) l Ibrahim Sabry (EGY) 4-6 (26-28, 26-22, 28-25, 27-30 28-30)
[R1] Jayanta Talukdar (IND) bt Artyom Gankin (KAZ) 6-0 (30-23, 28-23, 28-26)

Indian men's Recurve archery team reached in another final at World cup ... In the first round they scored big 229 points in a win against Netherlands ... They also defeated good teams like Italy and Malaysia to reach the final ... In the final they r facing local team.

In Recurve men individual event Tarundeep Rai produced excellent performance ... He is in medal round after losing very close semi-final with British player ... For Bronze medal he is facing Frenchman Gael Prevost ... Our other two archers lost in first 2 rounds.

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