Parth Salunkhe surprised Olympics and World championships medallists Mete Gazoz and Kim Je Deok on his solution to enter the recurve males’s particular person semifinals on the Archery World Cup Stage-2 in Shanghai on Friday.
Deepika Kumari, who beat Olympics silver medallist Li Jiaman, reached the ladies’s semifinals.
The outcomes:
Individual: Recurve: Men: B.Dhiraj misplaced to Abdullah Yildirmis (Tur) 6-5 (shoot-off: 10-9) (first spherical); Atanu Das bt Christian Stoddard (USA) 7-3 (first spherical), bt Kwok Yin Chai (Hkg) 7-1 (second spherical), bt Wang Yan (Chn) 6-4 (third spherical), misplaced to Kim Woo Jin (Kor) 6-2 (quarterfinal); Parth Salunkhe bt Mete Gazoz (Tur) 6-5 (10-9) (first spherical), bt Aoshima Tetsuya (Jpn) 6-5 (10-8) (second spherical), Ryan Tyack (Aus) 6-2 (pre-quarterfinal), bt Kim Je Deok (Kor) 6-2 (quarterfinals); Tarundeep Rai misplaced to Tetsuya 6-5 (9*-9, nearer to heart) (first spherical).
Women: Ankita Bhakat bt Karina Kozlowska (Pol) 6-0 (first spherical), bt Huyen Diep Trieu (Vie) 6-0 (second spherical), misplaced to Lim Sihyeon (Kor) 7-3 (pre-quarterfinals); Deepika Kumari bt Lucia Ibanez Romero (Spn) 6-4 (first spherical), Diana Tursunbek (Kaz) 6-0 (second spherical), bt Victoria Sebastian (Fra) 6-4 (pre-quarterfinal), bt Li Jiaman (Chn) 6-2 (quarterfinal); Anshika Kumari misplaced to Elisa Tartler (Ger) 6-5 (10-9) (first spherical); Simranjeet Kaur misplaced to Uehara Ruka (Jpn) 7-3 (first spherical).
Mixed Team: Recurve: India (Deepika, Dhiraj) acquired a bye (first spherical), misplaced to Spain 5-1 (pre-quarterfinals); Compound: India (Madhura Dhamangaonkar, Abhishek Verma) acquired a bye (first spherical), bt Singapore (pre-quarterfinals), bt USA 160-158 (quarterfinals), misplaced to Grain Britain 158-156 (semifinals), to fulfill Malaysia in bronze medal match.
Published – May 10, 2025 04:55 am IST
