India’s Deepika Kumari finished ninth overall in the ranking round of the women’s individual archery competition at the Olympic Games with ...
India’s Deepika Kumari finished ninth overall in the ranking round of the women’s individual archery competition at the Olympic Games with a total score of 663 in Tokyo on Friday.
The world No 1 will face Karma from Bhutan in the round of 64 and will be in line for a potential quarter-final match against top seed An San from Korea who set a new Olympic record. The Koreans dominated once again and just as in Rio 2016, swept the top three spots.
A 7 in the final shot saw Deepika slide down by a couple of spots. While overall, it was a solid show by the Indian, the stray 7s cost her though. At the halfway mark (after 6 rounds), she was in the fourth position but things didn’t quite go exactly to plan in the second half.
She had three relatively poor rounds (53, 53, 54) and that saw her slide down the rankings.
She had just one 7 in the first half but three more in the second half – these are shots that she would want to avoid when the actual KO rounds begin.
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