DEN BOSCH (The Netherlands): Indian males's recurve archery crew secured the Olympic quota for the 2020 Tokyo Games via storming into the quarterfinals of the World Championships however there was once heartbreak in store for the fancied girls's aspect on Wednesday.
The males's crew of Tarundeep Rai, Atanu Das and Pravin Jadhav post a superlative show, posting a 5-Three win over Canada to protected three-athlete quota for the primary time since the 2012 London Olympics.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, India had a person access in Das, who had made a prequarterfinal exit.
"We finally made it. We are gelling well as a team and looking forward to Tokyo now. This is the moment to keep going for 2020," two-time Olympian Rai, a member of the London Olympics, said.
"I'm sure the opponents were feeling exactly the same pressure. So the key was to keep calm and it worked well for us," the 35-year-old Army archer said.
But it turned out to be an afternoon of contrasting fortunes for the ladies's recurve crew as senior archer Laishram Bombayla Devi misfired as soon as, whilst Komalika Bari uncovered her inexperience costing them the match 2-6 in opposition to lower-seeded Belarus.
The girls's crew may have a last probability in 2020 World Cup Stage III in Berlin the place top three in the secondary tournament will grasp the general Olympic quotas.
Blaming good fortune, the three-time Olympian Bombayla said: "In practice, I was shooting well but there was misfortune and something happened during the competition and I misfired. It could have been an easy win. We will try our best next time."
Bombayla's misfire meant India shot a poor 43 in opposition to Belarus' 52 in the first set. In the second one set, Bombayla and Komalika shot Three and 5 and it proved an excessive amount of for Deepika Kumari, as they lost 44-52 to path 0-Four.
The trio in any case came good in the third set successful it 53-51 to make it Four-2 however Karyna Kazlouskaya, Karyna Dziominskaya, Hanna Marusava sealed the issue 6-2 with a 53-51 win in the fourth set.
Indian crew in the girls's compound segment, which is a non-Olympic category, entered the quarterfinals with a commanding 236-226 win over France.
Led via Muskan Kirar's exceptional display, India girls's compound crew (2099 points) finished third in the ranking round in the back of Colombia (2111) and Korea (2101) and advanced directly into the pre-quarters.
The 19-year-old from Jabalpur shot 54 absolute best arrows which integrated 24 instances X (closest to the centre) for an general score of 701 points over the 72-arrow 50-metre ranking round.
Having finished in the top-eight, Muskan Kirar got a bye into the round of 32 in the individual segment.
29th seed Abhishek Verma, Bhagwan Das (35th) and Rajat Chauhan (88th) of fellows's, and Jyothi Surekha Vennam (17th) of ladies's advanced to the round three in the compound segment.
India also remained in the medal fray in the compound mixed pair event the place Verma and Muskan entered directly into last-16 with a top 8 end in the ranking round.
India face Germany in the compound mixed pair pre-quarterfinals.
Compound males's crew, who got a 14th place in the ranking, defeated their Spanish fighters 235-229 in the first round however simplest to end their marketing campaign after shedding to 3rd seeded Turkey 234-238.
Up in opposition to a crew who secured a bye into the last-16 after completing 6th in the ranking round, the Indian trio of Rai, Das and Jadhav started off with three absolute best photographs including one X to take the primary set with a one-point (56-55) lead in the males's recurve round two.
They held directly to their momentum and scored one-point more than the primary set with another absolute best get started in the second one set the place the trio hit two Xs and one 10 to edge out their fighters as soon as once more via one point (57-56) and race to a Four-0 lead.
Eric Peters, Crispin Duenas and Brian Maxwell, then again, bounced back to grasp the third set (58-54) hitting four absolute best photographs with two X to take the match to the decider.
Needing a tie, the Indians held their nerves and levelled the rankings 57-all to seal the issue 5-Three and protected an Olympic berth.
Das, who was once India's lone access in the males's segment, also sounded ecstatic and credited their robust get started.
"We started off very well. I think this the best team we ever made. We worked so hard to get this point. We did not qualify in the last Olympics. So this is going to be a turning point for Indian archery," Das said.
The Indian crew's preparation previous this yr was once marred via infighting in the national federation which is observing suspension from World Archery for electing two parallel our bodies.
Internal wrangling via two faction teams had led the archers to drag out of the World Cup Stage I in Medellin beneath abnormal cases of lacking their connecting flight.
To make up for the loss, the BVP Rao-led workforce had organised the acclimatisation camp for the recurve archers in Breda, The Netherlands.
The 8 quarterfinalists win complete three-athlete quotas. And the top four individual athletes from international locations no longer certified in the crew event acquire a unmarried berth for their respective international locations.
The males's crew of Tarundeep Rai, Atanu Das and Pravin Jadhav post a superlative show, posting a 5-Three win over Canada to protected three-athlete quota for the primary time since the 2012 London Olympics.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, India had a person access in Das, who had made a prequarterfinal exit.
"We finally made it. We are gelling well as a team and looking forward to Tokyo now. This is the moment to keep going for 2020," two-time Olympian Rai, a member of the London Olympics, said.
"I'm sure the opponents were feeling exactly the same pressure. So the key was to keep calm and it worked well for us," the 35-year-old Army archer said.
But it turned out to be an afternoon of contrasting fortunes for the ladies's recurve crew as senior archer Laishram Bombayla Devi misfired as soon as, whilst Komalika Bari uncovered her inexperience costing them the match 2-6 in opposition to lower-seeded Belarus.
The girls's crew may have a last probability in 2020 World Cup Stage III in Berlin the place top three in the secondary tournament will grasp the general Olympic quotas.
Blaming good fortune, the three-time Olympian Bombayla said: "In practice, I was shooting well but there was misfortune and something happened during the competition and I misfired. It could have been an easy win. We will try our best next time."
Bombayla's misfire meant India shot a poor 43 in opposition to Belarus' 52 in the first set. In the second one set, Bombayla and Komalika shot Three and 5 and it proved an excessive amount of for Deepika Kumari, as they lost 44-52 to path 0-Four.
The trio in any case came good in the third set successful it 53-51 to make it Four-2 however Karyna Kazlouskaya, Karyna Dziominskaya, Hanna Marusava sealed the issue 6-2 with a 53-51 win in the fourth set.
Indian crew in the girls's compound segment, which is a non-Olympic category, entered the quarterfinals with a commanding 236-226 win over France.
Led via Muskan Kirar's exceptional display, India girls's compound crew (2099 points) finished third in the ranking round in the back of Colombia (2111) and Korea (2101) and advanced directly into the pre-quarters.
The 19-year-old from Jabalpur shot 54 absolute best arrows which integrated 24 instances X (closest to the centre) for an general score of 701 points over the 72-arrow 50-metre ranking round.
Having finished in the top-eight, Muskan Kirar got a bye into the round of 32 in the individual segment.
29th seed Abhishek Verma, Bhagwan Das (35th) and Rajat Chauhan (88th) of fellows's, and Jyothi Surekha Vennam (17th) of ladies's advanced to the round three in the compound segment.
India also remained in the medal fray in the compound mixed pair event the place Verma and Muskan entered directly into last-16 with a top 8 end in the ranking round.
India face Germany in the compound mixed pair pre-quarterfinals.
Compound males's crew, who got a 14th place in the ranking, defeated their Spanish fighters 235-229 in the first round however simplest to end their marketing campaign after shedding to 3rd seeded Turkey 234-238.
Up in opposition to a crew who secured a bye into the last-16 after completing 6th in the ranking round, the Indian trio of Rai, Das and Jadhav started off with three absolute best photographs including one X to take the primary set with a one-point (56-55) lead in the males's recurve round two.
They held directly to their momentum and scored one-point more than the primary set with another absolute best get started in the second one set the place the trio hit two Xs and one 10 to edge out their fighters as soon as once more via one point (57-56) and race to a Four-0 lead.
Eric Peters, Crispin Duenas and Brian Maxwell, then again, bounced back to grasp the third set (58-54) hitting four absolute best photographs with two X to take the match to the decider.
Needing a tie, the Indians held their nerves and levelled the rankings 57-all to seal the issue 5-Three and protected an Olympic berth.
Das, who was once India's lone access in the males's segment, also sounded ecstatic and credited their robust get started.
"We started off very well. I think this the best team we ever made. We worked so hard to get this point. We did not qualify in the last Olympics. So this is going to be a turning point for Indian archery," Das said.
The Indian crew's preparation previous this yr was once marred via infighting in the national federation which is observing suspension from World Archery for electing two parallel our bodies.
Internal wrangling via two faction teams had led the archers to drag out of the World Cup Stage I in Medellin beneath abnormal cases of lacking their connecting flight.
To make up for the loss, the BVP Rao-led workforce had organised the acclimatisation camp for the recurve archers in Breda, The Netherlands.
The 8 quarterfinalists win complete three-athlete quotas. And the top four individual athletes from international locations no longer certified in the crew event acquire a unmarried berth for their respective international locations.
Indian men's archery team bags Tokyo Olympics berths
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