The Indian archery team will try its best to win a medal for the first time in Paris Olympics 2024. Archery was included in the Olympics in 1988 and since then Indian archers have been participating in almost every Olympic Games, but have so far failed to reach the podium. Actually, the venue will be different and so will the year and there will be a new Olympics, but the goal of Indian archers will be the same old, to win the first medal in the Olympic Games.
Indian archers will begin their campaign at the Paris Olympics with the qualification round at Les Invalides Garden on Thursday. The men’s team final at the Paris Olympics will begin on Monday, while individual eliminations will begin on Tuesday. The mixed team finals take place next Friday and the women’s and individual finals take place the same weekend.
Indian archers could not progress beyond the quarter finals
Indian archers have not yet been able to progress beyond the quarter-finals in the Olympics. India could not qualify in archery only in Sydney Olympics 2000. Apart from this, he participated in all the Olympic Games, but could not improve his performance.
This is the first time after London Olympics 2012, while all 6 players are included in the Indian team. The Indian men’s and women’s teams qualified for the Olympics on the basis of ranking, which means that this time Indian archers will participate in 5 events.
Experienced Tarundeep Rai and Deepika Kumari are participating in their fourth Olympics. Under his leadership, the team will have to finish at least in the top 10 in the qualification to get the preferred draw.
Each archer will shoot 72 arrows and based on the scores of 128 players from 53 countries participating in the qualification round, the seeding will be decided for the main knockout competition starting from Sunday.
The qualification round will be important for the Indian team, which has often been seeded lower and in such a situation, it has to face a strong team like South Korea in the knockout stage.
All the male archers of India could not make it to the top 30 in the Tokyo Olympics, due to which the Indian team was seeded 9th. India’s only female archer Deepika had secured 9th position. India then had to face defeat from top seed Korea in their respective quarter-final matches.
India has high hopes from the men’s team, which created history by defeating Korea in the World Cup final in Shanghai this year.
The Indian team includes experienced players in the form of Rai and previous Olympic participant Praveen Jadhav, while youngster Dheeraj Bommadevara is on the rise after winning a bronze medal by defeating Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Mauro Nespoli of Italy at the Antalya World Cup a month ago. Will be filled with.
All eyes will be on Deepika Kumari
In the women’s category, all eyes will be on Deepika. Within 16 months of becoming a mother, she made a spectacular comeback by winning a silver medal in the first stage of the World Cup in Shanghai.
Ankita Bhakta and Bhajan Kaur are there to support her in the women’s team. This will be the first Olympics for both of them, but she has been a part of the Indian team in the current Olympic cycle and better performance is expected from her.
If Dheeraj and Deepika remain on top in the ranking round, then a medal can be expected from them in the recurve mixed team.
Indian archery team for Paris Olympics 2024
men’s recurve
Dhiraj Bommadevra, Tarundeep Roy, Praveen Jadhav
women’s recurve
Bhajan Kaur, Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat