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Kolkata: A brilliant Deepika Kumari led India to gold in womens recurve team championship at the Archery World Cup in Medellin, Colombia, on Sunday. The World No 3 hit four 10s in tricky conditions and was the chief architect of Indias 201-186 win over China in the final.
India, thus, claimed their second medal of this World Cup and their first World Cup Womens team gold since Shanghai meet two years ago.
The top-seeded Chinese team comprised of Xu Jing and Cheng Ming who won the Olympic team silver in the London Games as well as Cui Yuanyuan, an individual winner in Antalya. In head-to-head record, China were also leading India 7-4 before the final.
According to information received here, China got off to a disastrous start with Ming missing the target completely and failing to register a score while Jing and Yuanyuan came up with only 6 and 5 with their first arrows. In extremely windy conditions, Bombayla Devi and Rimil Buriuly managed 11 between them but World No.3 Deepika showed her class under pressure with an 8 as India took a massive lead after just 3 arrows.
India were leading 46-33 after the opening end.
China seemed too far behind for staging a comeback. Before the last six arrows, India extended their lead to 147-134. The Chinese trio tried hard but it was difficult to hit 10s in such conditions and they only made scores of 51, 50 and 52 in the last three ends. But the Indians had looking back as Deepika took the centrestage and ensured the gold.
Bronze for mens compound team:
Rajat Chouhan, Sandeep Kumar and Ratan Singh Khuraijam overcame a stiff resistance from hosts Colombia to win 215-210 en route to the bronze medal. The Indians were up against the home favourites Juan Carlos Carrasquilla, Camilo Andres Cardona and and José Carlos Ospina as there was a huge crowd cheering for them.
But the Indians began solidly out of the gate to take a 52-50 lead in the first end. The Colombians made a comeback in the second end with two perfect 10s for a cumulative 54 against Indians 50 to take the lead 104-102.
However, Chouhan led the team to four perfect 10s en route to 56 as India snatched the lead 158-156 at the penultimate round.
The Indians did not look back since as they clinched the issue easily shooting 57 to deny the Colombians their first World Cup medal in the compound mens category.
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India, thus, claimed their second medal of this World Cup and their first World Cup Womens team gold since Shanghai meet two years ago.
The top-seeded Chinese team comprised of Xu Jing and Cheng Ming who won the Olympic team silver in the London Games as well as Cui Yuanyuan, an individual winner in Antalya. In head-to-head record, China were also leading India 7-4 before the final.
According to information received here, China got off to a disastrous start with Ming missing the target completely and failing to register a score while Jing and Yuanyuan came up with only 6 and 5 with their first arrows. In extremely windy conditions, Bombayla Devi and Rimil Buriuly managed 11 between them but World No.3 Deepika showed her class under pressure with an 8 as India took a massive lead after just 3 arrows.
India were leading 46-33 after the opening end.
China seemed too far behind for staging a comeback. Before the last six arrows, India extended their lead to 147-134. The Chinese trio tried hard but it was difficult to hit 10s in such conditions and they only made scores of 51, 50 and 52 in the last three ends. But the Indians had looking back as Deepika took the centrestage and ensured the gold.
Bronze for mens compound team:
Rajat Chouhan, Sandeep Kumar and Ratan Singh Khuraijam overcame a stiff resistance from hosts Colombia to win 215-210 en route to the bronze medal. The Indians were up against the home favourites Juan Carlos Carrasquilla, Camilo Andres Cardona and and José Carlos Ospina as there was a huge crowd cheering for them.
But the Indians began solidly out of the gate to take a 52-50 lead in the first end. The Colombians made a comeback in the second end with two perfect 10s for a cumulative 54 against Indians 50 to take the lead 104-102.
However, Chouhan led the team to four perfect 10s en route to 56 as India snatched the lead 158-156 at the penultimate round.
The Indians did not look back since as they clinched the issue easily shooting 57 to deny the Colombians their first World Cup medal in the compound mens category.
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