Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Archery News

At World Archery Championships - 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark


Recurve Women Team
[R1] (10) India bt (7) Germany 5-3 (49-56, 55-55, 51-50, 53-52)

[QF] (10) India bt (15) Colombia 6-2 (49-54, 57-48, 52-51, 50-47)

[SF] (10) India bt (6) Japan 5-4 (56-48, 54-55, 47-52, 56-53) 30-27

[F] (10) India vs (5) Russia

Recurve Men's Team
[R1] (15) India l (2) Italy 4-5 (55-52, 51-53, 57-56, 50-52) 26-29

Congratulations to Deepika Kumari, Rimil Buriuly & Laxmirani Majhi - our Indian women's recurve archery team as they qualify for Rio Olympics 2016 and with that we also qualify with 3 women archers for individual event ... Other hand our men lose close match against current Olympics champion Italy in shoot-off.

Indian women came from 1-3 down to beat Germany in topsy-turvy match as our archers struggled in this match ... Second match our archers dominated after losing first set for entering into the semis ... In the semis they face Japan, after winning first set comfortably our women lose close second set ... In third our archers hit wayward arrows but they recover to win fourth set ... In shoot-off our archers score perfect 30 to win the match ... In the final they r facing Russia, Russian girls upset mighty Korean girls in shoot-off ... Good opportunity for our girls for winning their first World Championships Gold medal.

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