Sunday, September 22, 2013

Archery News

At Archery World Cup Final 2013, Paris, France

Recurve Women's Individual


Gold - Ok Hee Yun (KOR)
Silver - Deepika Kumari (IND)
Bronze - Yuanyuan Cui (CHN)

Gold Medal match
Deepika Kumari (IND) l Ok Hee Yun (KOR) 4-6 (27-30 28-28 19-29 27-28 29-29)

[SF] Deepika Kumari (IND) bt Aejandra Valencia (MEX) 6-5 (26-27 25-28 29-24 27-27 30-27)

[QF] Deepika Kumari (IND) bt Aida Roman (MEX) 7-1 (28-28 29-28 26-24 28-26)

Deepika Kumari lost in the final against Korean WR #2 and experienced Ok Hee Yun ... The final was very close as Deepika started confidently scoring 10 points in all 3 arrows for winning the first set ... The second set tied 28-28 so Deepika was leading 3-1 ... In the third set both archers were tied on 19 points before last arrow ... Then Yun scored 10 but Deepika didn't have time to shoot ... Deepika lost 4th set by single point ... In the fifth set both archers matched each other arrows to scored identical 29 points ... So with that 1 point Yun completed victory and Deepika won the Silver.

Before this Deepika defeated two Mexican archers to reached the final ... In the first match she defeated London Olympics silver medalist Aida Roman comfortably ... In the semi-final she faced another Mexican 19 yrs old Aejandra Valencia, who defeated Olympics Gold medalist Korean Hyun Jung Joo in her first match ... Valencia won the first 2 sets and at that time Deepika was trailing 0-4 ... Deepika won the third set comfortably and then hold Valencia 27-27 in 4th set ... At that time scored 3-5 in Deepika's favor ... In the fifth set Deepika scored perfect 30 scoring three 10s and made it 5-5 ... In Shoot-off both archers hit 9 but Deepika's arrow was closer to the centre so that handed her a win.

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