Dhiraj Bommadevara of India. File picture.
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India secured considered one of their greatest wins in archery as males’s recurve crew of Dhiraj Bommadevara, Tarundeep Rai and Pravin Jadhav shocked reigning Olympic champions South Korea to win the gold medal at the continued World Cup Stage 1 in Shanghai on April 28.
In a battle between the top-two seeds of the competitors, Indians confirmed ice-cool composure to get the higher of the mighty Koreans with out dropping a set.
India received 5-1 (57-57, 57-55, 55-53), taking their gold medal depend to 5 within the season-opening world showpiece.
Indian compound archers had swept the crew occasions profitable males’s, ladies’s and combined crew gold medals on Saturday.
Reigning Asian Games champion Jyothi Surekha Vennam in a while Saturday clinched a fourth gold in ladies’s compound particular person part, whereas Priyansh settled for a maiden World Cup silver within the males’s particular person compound part.
India, now, have 5 gold and one silver thus far within the competitors.
Former world No. 1 Deepika Kumari can be eyeing a gold and can play her ladies’s recurve particular person semifinal taking over her Korean rival within the afternoon session.
India are additionally preventing for a bronze within the recurve combined crew occasion.