Enormous name archery couple Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari lost their respective bronze medal matches as India capped a wretched display, returning empty-handed from the World Cup Final in Yankton, US. In the absence of an Indian recurve coach, the couple struggled beneath frosty and overcast prerequisites on Friday (October 1).
Das lost a one-sided bronze playoff to reigning Olympic champion Mete Gazoz of Turkey 6-0 (27-29, 26-27, 28-30). He doubled up as Deepika’s coach when the realm quantity two lost in the shoot-off to Olympic crew bronze-medallist Michelle Kroppen. Making her eighth WCF appearance, world quantity two Deepika mis-fired a six to lose 5-6 (6-9) in the shoot-off.
Returning to action after bigger than two months following her quarterfinal exit at the Tokyo Games, a ideal put of 30 eluded the three-time Indian Olympian as her German rival stepped up early stress to cruise to a 4-0 lead. Michelle drilled in ideal ratings in the first two objects (30-28, 30-29), whereas the third became a tie with both the archers taking pictures 28-all.
The sphere quantity 14 started to hobble in the fourth put, her arrow touchdown in the crimson circle (8), as Deepika seized the different to come to a decision on the put by one level (28-27). Down 3-5, Deepika restful another 28 in the fabricate-or-damage fifth put to force a shoot-off.
But in the shoot-off, Deepika faltered taking pictures extensive in the blue ring. A winner of four silver medals and a bronze in the match, Deepika started off by defeating Olympic crew silver-medallist Svetlana Gomboeva of Russia 6-4 in the quarterfinals.
In the semifinals, she lost to double Tokyo Olympics silver-medallist Elena Osipova of Russia 6-2. Das started his campaign with a 6-2 opt over Germany’s Maximilian Weckmueller, simplest to circulate down to USA’s world quantity one Brady Ellison 2-6.
Essentially based on sources, Deepika’s childhood coach B Srinivas Rao became to designate up for the duo at Yankton however the idea became shelved at the final 2d. “We had Lokesh Chand as compound coach, and Rao became to tear there but in the waste 2d the idea became modified,” an decent told PTI with out entering into specifics.
Earlier on Thursday, ace compound archer Abhishek Verma failed in an effort to add to his three World Cup Final medals, making a first round exit with a loss to eventual silver medallist Braden Gellenthien of the US.
