Woong Ki will start his stint with the season-opening World Cup Stage 1, beginning in Antalya, Turkey from Tuesday.
This is the primary time India has employed a international trainer after the 2014 Asian Games.
The South Korean oversaw his nation’s double gold medal-winning display within the girls’s particular person and group sections on the London Olympics.
The AAI have additionally roped in two-time Italian World Cup winner Sergio Pagni, who’s accompanying the compound group to the Turkey World Cup.
Woong Ki, who was once first of all a part of the Center of Excellence in SAI, Sonipat, has now been given a freelance until the Paris Olympics.
“He has been made India recurve coach and will be till Asian Games and then the Olympics,” Indian archery excessive efficiency director and Dronacharya Awardee Sanjeeva Singh advised PTI.
The 44-year-old former international champion, Pagni, alternatively have been related to the compound group since 2018, when he had carried out a coaching program forward of the Asian Games.
“His familiarity and experience with Indian archers made him an automatic choice,” he added.
The upcoming World Cup would be the first large take a look at for the duo as India are fielding a new-look squad comprising most commonly juniors.
Barring the trio of 2010 Asian Games silver medalist Tarundeep Rai, two-time Olympian Atanu Das, and World Championships silver medalist compound archer Jyothi Surekha Vennam, the Indian squad have relatively a couple of new names.
All eyes could be at the high-profile Korean to convey out the most efficient from the Indian group which can pass over large names similar to Deepika Kumari, Riddhi Phor and Komalika Bari, who’ve didn’t make the minimize.
“I’ve met Woong Ki during the trials in Kolkata, he was part of the CoE and looked full of energy and positive vibes. I’m looking forward to a good show,” Deepika stated.
While the recurve males’s group would be the maximum fancied banking at the enjoy of Rai and Das, all eyes could be at the girls’s aspect the place Aditi Jaiswal will play her 2nd World Cup.
The largest identify to pass over out within the compound segment is top-ranked Indian Abhishek Verma (international No. 13), a five-time World Cup gold medalist and a former World Championship silver medallist.
The compound segment can have two debutants every within the males’s and girls’s sections — Rishabh Yadav, Ojas Deotale, Aditi Swamy and Sakshi Choudhary.
“The juniors are upcoming and doing well. They have come through a rigorous two-phase trial in Kolkata and Sonipat. We expect them to come out strongly,” Singh stated.
“We want to see how they overcome anxiety pangs. A good start (in the qualification) will set them up,” Singh added.
Teams:
Recurve Men: B Dhiraj, Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai, Neeraj Chauhan; Recurve Women: Bhajan Kaur, Aditi Jaiswal, Ankita Bhakat, Simranjit Kaur; Compound Men: Prathmesh Jawhar, Rajat Chauhan, Ojas Deotale, Rishab Yadav; Compound Women: Avneet Kaur, V Jyothi Surekha, Aditi Swamy, Sakshi Choudhary.
(With PTI inputs)