Deepika Kumari and Parth Salunkhe sealed their spots in the semifinals of the individual recurve events at the Archery World Cup Stage 2 in Shanghai on May 9, 2025.
Ace Indian archer Deepika Kumari and youngster Parth Salunkhe sealed their spots in the semifinals of the individual recurve events at the Archery World Cup Stage 2 in Shanghai on Friday.
Parth displayed excellent form and composure, handing a shock defeat to former Olympic and World Champion Mete Gazoz of Turkey in a shoot-off in the first round. He pulled off another heist against South Korea’s Kim Je Deok, a three-time Olympic gold medallist in team events, in the third round.
Parth will face reigning Olympic champion Kim Woojin, also from Korea, in the last four on Sunday.
Olympian Deepika, meanwhile, defeated China’s Li Jiaman, a silver medallist in the team event at the 2024 Paris Olympics, 6-2 in the quarterfinals. Like Parth, Deepika will also take on a reigning Olympic champion - Lim Sihyeon of Korea - in Sunday’s semifinals.
In the compound mixed team event, however, Indian archers could not yield any positive results as Abhishek Verma and Madhura Dhamangaonkar went down 156-158 to Great Britain in the semifinals.
Nonetheless, Abhishek and Madhura still have a chance to return home with a medal as they face Malaysia’s Fatin Nurfatehah Mat Salleh and Mohd. Juwaidi Mazuki in Saturday’s bronze medal match.
The Indian men’s and women’s compound teams will face Mexico in their respective finals.
Results
Individual: Recurve: Men: B.Dhiraj lost to Abdullah Yildirmis (Tur) 6-5 (shoot-off: 10-9) (first round); Atanu Das bt Christian Stoddard (USA) 7-3 (first round), bt Kwok Yin Chai (Hkg) 7-1 (second round), bt Wang Yan (Chn) 6-4 (third round), lost to Kim Woo Jin (Kor) 6-2 (quarterfinal); Parth Salunkhe bt Mete Gazoz (Tur) 6-5 (10-9) (first round), bt Aoshima Tetsuya (Jpn) 6-5 (10-8) (second round), Ryan Tyack (Aus) 6-2 (pre-quarterfinal), bt Kim Je Deok (Kor) 6-2 (quarterfinals); Tarundeep Rai lost to Tetsuya 6-5 (9*-9, closer to center) (first round).
Women: Ankita Bhakat bt Karina Kozlowska (Pol) 6-0 (first round), bt Huyen Diep Trieu (Vie) 6-0 (second round), lost to Lim Sihyeon (Kor) 7-3 (pre-quarterfinals); Deepika Kumari bt Lucia Ibanez Romero (Spn) 6-4 (first round), Diana Tursunbek (Kaz) 6-0 (second round), bt Victoria Sebastian (Fra) 6-4 (pre-quarterfinal), bt Li Jiaman (Chn) 6-2 (quarterfinal); Anshika Kumari lost to Elisa Tartler (Ger) 6-5 (10-9) (first round); Simranjeet Kaur lost to Uehara Ruka (Jpn) 7-3 (first round).
Mixed Team: Recurve: India (Deepika, Dhiraj) got a bye (first round), lost to Spain 5-1 (pre-quarterfinals); Compound: India (Madhura Dhamangaonkar, Abhishek Verma) got a bye (first round), bt Singapore (pre-quarterfinals), bt USA 160-158 (quarterfinals), lost to Grain Britain 158-156 (semifinals)
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