Big name archery couple Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari misplaced their respective bronze medal fits as India capped a wretched present, returning empty-handed from the World Cup Final in Yankton, US. Within the absence of an Indian recurve coach, the couple struggled under frigid and overcast stipulations on Friday (October 1).
Das misplaced 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 world number two misplaced in the shoot-off to Olympic group bronze-medallist Michelle Kroppen. Making her eighth WCF appearance, world number two Deepika mis-fired a six to lose 5-6 (6-9) in the shoot-off.
Returning to action after more than two months following her quarterfinal exit at the Tokyo Video games, a best doubtless enviornment of 30 eluded the three-time Indian Olympian as her German rival stepped up early strain to cruise to a 4-0 lead. Michelle drilled in best doubtless scores in the main two objects (30-28, 30-29), whereas the third modified into as soon as a tie with each and every the archers shooting 28-all.
The sector number 14 began to high-tail in the fourth enviornment, her arrow touchdown in the crimson circle (8), as Deepika seized the synthetic to dispose of the enviornment by one point (28-27). Down 3-5, Deepika aloof one more 28 in the make-or-ruin fifth enviornment to power a shoot-off.
Nevertheless in the shoot-off, Deepika faltered shooting wide in the blue ring. A winner of four silver medals and a bronze in the match, Deepika started off by defeating Olympic group silver-medallist Svetlana Gomboeva of Russia 6-4 in the quarterfinals.
Within the semifinals, she misplaced to double Tokyo Olympics silver-medallist Elena Osipova of Russia 6-2. Das began his marketing campaign with a 6-2 dispose of over Germany’s Maximilian Weckmueller, simplest to head all the fashion down to USA’s world number 1 Brady Ellison 2-6.
Basically based totally on sources, Deepika’s childhood coach B Srinivas Rao modified into as soon as to affix the duo at Yankton however the idea modified into as soon as shelved at the final second. “We had Lokesh Chand as compound coach, and Rao modified into as soon as to commute there however in the extinguish second the idea modified into as soon as modified,” an official informed PTI with out entering into specifics.
Earlier on Thursday, ace compound archer Abhishek Verma failed so to add to his three World Cup Final medals, making a first spherical exit with a loss to eventual silver medallist Braden Gellenthien of the USA.
