NEW DELHI: India is ready to start its Paris Olympics journey on Thursday, with veteran archers Deepika Kumari and Tarundeep Rai main the workforce within the rating rounds at Les Invalides. The Indian contingent, comprising six archers, will compete in all 5 medal occasions, marking the primary full workforce participation for the reason that London 2012 Olympics.
The rating rounds are essential for India’s archery prospects.Performances over 72 arrows by every of the six archers will decide seedings for each particular person and workforce occasions.
The boys’s and girls’s workforce competitions will see the highest 4 seeded groups incomes direct quarterfinal {qualifications}, whereas groups seeded between eighth and twelfth will compete for quarterfinal spots.The rating can even resolve entries for the blended workforce competitors, the place solely the highest 16 pairs will qualify for the subsequent stage. Every nation’s seeding within the blended workforce occasion might be primarily based on the mixed prime scores from one male and one feminine archer.
It’s Deepika Kumari’s fourth Olympic look and her first since changing into a mom, the ANI report talked about. Equally, Tarundeep Rai can also be making his fourth Olympic look. Pravin Jadhav, who competed in Tokyo 2020, is again for his second Olympics. The workforce additionally options three Olympic debutants: Dhiraj Bommadevara, Bhajan Kaur, and Ankita Bhakat.
The rating rounds are essential for India’s archery prospects.Performances over 72 arrows by every of the six archers will decide seedings for each particular person and workforce occasions.
The boys’s and girls’s workforce competitions will see the highest 4 seeded groups incomes direct quarterfinal {qualifications}, whereas groups seeded between eighth and twelfth will compete for quarterfinal spots.The rating can even resolve entries for the blended workforce competitors, the place solely the highest 16 pairs will qualify for the subsequent stage. Every nation’s seeding within the blended workforce occasion might be primarily based on the mixed prime scores from one male and one feminine archer.
It’s Deepika Kumari’s fourth Olympic look and her first since changing into a mom, the ANI report talked about. Equally, Tarundeep Rai can also be making his fourth Olympic look. Pravin Jadhav, who competed in Tokyo 2020, is again for his second Olympics. The workforce additionally options three Olympic debutants: Dhiraj Bommadevara, Bhajan Kaur, and Ankita Bhakat.
Regardless of their wealthy historical past and quite a few worldwide accolades, Indian archers have but to win an Olympic medal.
The archery competitors at Paris 2024 will start with the person rating rounds on July 25, a day earlier than the Opening Ceremony, and proceed with the following levels from July 28 to August 4 at Les Invalides.
INDIA SCHEDULE FOR TODAY (IST)
Archery
- Ladies’s Particular person Rating Spherical (Deepika Kumari, Bhajan Kaur, Ankita Bhakat) – 1:00 PM
- Males’s Particular person Rating Spherical (Tarundeep Rai, Dhiraj Bommadevara, Pravin Jadhav) – 5:45 PM.
