India could have a possibility to win their first World Cup gold medal within the males’s recurve workforce match after 13 years because the trio of Atanu Das, B Dhiraj and Tarundeep Rai will face China within the ultimate on Sunday.
The males’s recurve workforce, which were given a first-round bye after qualifying because the fourth seed, confronted a stiff problem to start with because it defeated thirteenth seed Japan 5-4 with a 29-28 win within the shoot-off.
The Indians shot two easiest 10s from 3 makes an attempt (10, 10, 9) to seal the problem within the tie-breaker after each the groups had been locked 4-4 (49-52, 57-52, 54-51, 52-57 ) the next 4 units of intense capturing.
Thereafter, it used to be a very easy crusing for the Indian trio that were given previous twelfth seed Chinese Taipei and 9th seed Netherlands by means of an identical 6-2 margins to arrange a summit conflict with 2d seed China.
The Netherlands will tackle Slovenia within the bronze play-off.
It used to be a very easy day out towards Chinese Taipei because the Indian males’s recurve workforce raced to a 4-0 lead ahead of sealing the problem 6-2 (55-54, 57-54, 51-53, 58-56) with 4 10s together with an X (nearer to the centre).
Next up, had been the Netherlands who had been on a top after getting rid of top-seed and match hosts Turkey (6-0), a workforce that incorporated the reigning Olympic champion Mete Gazoz.
The Dutch raced to a 2-0 lead however the Indians got here again strongly to win 6-2 (56-58, 57-53, 57-55, 56-54).
Turkish Delight
Incidentally, it’s on the identical Mediterranean coastal hotel of Antalya the place the Indian males’s recurve workforce had tasted its first luck in a World Cup long ago in 2008.
The workforce of Jayanta Talukdar, Rahul Banerjee and Mangal Singh Champia defeated their Malaysia competitors 218-215 en path to a maiden recurve males’s workforce gold medal within the World Cup.
Since then, Indian males’s recurve workforce have gained 5 gold medals within the World Cup.
India had final gained a World Cup gold medal in males’s recurve workforce match in Shanghai in 2010.
The 39-year-old Army guy Rai used to be additionally a member of the gold-winning facet in Shanghai when he at the side of Talukdar and Banerjee defeated Japan 224-220 within the ultimate.
India reached the overall two times in 2014 — Stage 2 Medellin and Stage 4 Wroclaw — however on each the events the workforce returned with silver medals.
At Medellin, India misplaced to Korea within the tie-breaker, whilst Mexico gained the gold medal conflict with a 5–3 win in Wroclaw.
Korea have pulled out of the World Cup as a result of their alternatives that are operating concurrently.
(With PTI inputs)