The Indian women’s compound trio of Jyoti Surekha Vennam, Preneet Kaur and Aditi Swamy won their third consecutive Archery World Cup gold medal on Saturday, while the mixed team won a silver medal in the stage two event. The world number one Indian compound women’s team dominated Turkey’s Hazel Burun, Ayse Bera Suzer and Begum Yuva from the very first end and maintained a healthy six-point margin (232-226) in a one-sided final, winning the gold without losing a set. Captured the medal.
Asian Games champion Jyoti, however, failed to add a second gold to her kitty as she teamed up with Priyansh to lose her early lead and two points (155-153) to USA’s Olivia Dean and Sawyer Sullivan in the compound mixed team. ) lost to. Last.
Jyoti, Preneet and world champion Aditi together completed a hat-trick of World Cup gold medals.
They beat Italy in the season-opening World Cup Stage 1 in Shanghai last month and finished with a gold medal at Stage Four in Paris last year.
In the compound women’s team final, the second-seeded Indians started with three
In the next round of six arrows, the Indians showed complete dominance, drilling in five perfect 10s and one 9 along with two Xs to extend their lead to four points at the halfway point.
Turkey fought hard in the final round, hitting four 10s and an ace to equal India’s score of 58.
But it did not make much difference as the Indians were leading by four points till the fourth and final end.
He sealed it by scoring another 58, which included three 10s and an ace.
In a battle between the top two ranked nations in the world in the compound mixed team final, the United States made a remarkable comeback to win the gold medal and maintain their dominance.
Jyoti and Priyansh took a two-point lead in the first end by scoring around 39 points out of the maximum of 40.
But they struggled for consistency as Olivia and Sullivan bounced back to score 39 to put the Indians ahead by two points at half-point (76-all).
The No. 2 seed USA pair scored a perfect score of 40 in the third end to take a slight lead of one point, while the Indians could only score 39 runs after losing one point.
Jyoti and Priyansh needed to score a perfect 40 for the shoot-off, but they managed to score 38, while the USA pair shot 39 to capture the gold medal.
There are also hopes for a third medal from the compound category at this edition of the World Cup, with Prathamesh Phuge one win away from a maiden individual World Cup podium finish.
Fuege, who defeated 2021 world champion and world No. 6 Nico Wiener of Austria in the quarters, will be up against world No. 7 James Lutz in his bid for a first individual World Cup medal.
Phuge was part of the gold medal-winning men’s team in Shanghai.
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