India has begun its Paris Olympics campaign on Thursday with Deepika Kumari and Tarundeep Rai leading the archery team in the ranking rounds at Les Invalides. India finishes 3rd in men’s team rankings for Archery and qualifies directly after securing rank 4 in Women’s Archery.
For the first time since the London 2012 Olympics, India will field a full team of six archers, competing in all five medal events: men’s team, men’s individual, women’s team, women’s individual, and mixed team, according to Olympics.com.
Here’s how the Archery Contingent performed
In the women’s team archery ranking round, India secured direct qualification by finishing fourth. Ankita Bhakat scored 666 points (her season best) and finished 11th, Bhajan Kaur finished 22nd with 659 points, and Deepika Kumari finished 23rd with 658 points.
Dhiraj Bommadevara finished 4th, Tarundeep Rai 14th, and Pravin Jadhav 39th in the men’s archery ranking round, placing India 3rd in the team rankings.The Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony on July 26 at 11 PM IST.
India’s campaign at the 2024 Paris Olympics began today with the archery ranking rounds at Les Invalides.In the individual ranking rounds, Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur, and Deepika Kumari secured the 11th, 22nd, and 23rd seeds respectively, and qualified for the women’s team quarterfinals. India has never won an Olympic archery medal.
What is the qualification round and why is it important?
The qualification round sets the seedings for the knockout competition, starting Sunday. There are 128 archers, with 64 male and 64 female archers. Each of them shoot 72 arrows to determine their rankings for the single-elimination bracket.
The top-ranked archer faces the lowest-ranked archer, the second-ranked faces the second-lowest, and so on.
For team events, the same rankings determine seedings. The total scores of the archers are used in men’s and team events. For the mixed team event, the combined scores of the top male and female archers from each nation will be used.
The top four seeded teams in the men’s and women’s events get direct entry into the quarterfinals. Teams seeded 5th to 12th compete in the round of 16, with winners advancing to the quarters. Only the top 16 teams qualify for the mixed team event.
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