Dhaka: India entered the final of the men, women and a mixed team of the Asian archery championship on Tuesday, convincing the nation at least three medals in the continental exhibition.
India also remained in the hunt for three bronze medals in compound men, women and recurve mixed team events after losing their respective semi-final matches.
The top seed Korea, which has become an enemy of their eternal in almost every international competition, will once again stand on the Indian gold medal road on the three events.
Archery heavy country, Korea, is in line with a clean sweep at the continental exhibition.
India on Monday keeps themselves in hunting two medals in parts of individual compounds, with one guaranteed.
Make changes to the show under their par in the individual section on Monday, the recurve archer stepped him on the team when the second leading team and a team of women ensured a contrasting semifinal victory to confirm two medals.
Ankita Bhakat, Madhu Vedwan and Ridhi easily won 6-0 (51-48, 56-50, 53-50) over Vietnam in the semifinals of the women’s team.
In the field of six small teams, the second seed India got bye to the last four rounds.
Bibladesh’s third seed, on the other hand, gave capil, Pravin Jadhav and Parth Salunkhe stiff challenges in the semifinals of the men’s recurve team when local favorites led to Timah 3-1.
But Indian trio imposes a tie-breaker to make it 4-4 (53-53, 53-56, 56-56, 56-55) before sealing the last bed in a thrilling shot that also goes to the tie.
Both teams shot 10, 9 and 8 but Indians were declared the winners with their 10 closest to the center.
After getting goodbye to his residence, the second seed India began beating Saudi Arabia 6-0 on the recurve men’s team.
India advanced to their third final in a compound mixed partner where Duo Rishabh Yadav and Jyothi Surekha Vennam made use of the full field of six small teams to advance the easy 156-154 victory over Kazakhstan.
Seeded the second, the mixed team of Indian compounds got bye to the semifinals.
Bangladesh continued to avenge the semifinal defeat of their recurve men’s team by winning their mixed pair semifinals to order a top clash with superior Korea.
Kapil and Ankita began with a brilliant record of shooting four perfect arrows but they slipped after that because Bangladesh was supported by local support making it 4-4 (40-37, 36-36, 37-36).
In the shoot-off, Bangladesh duo from Mohammad Hakim Ahmed Rubel and Diya Siddique rolled up India 19-20 to land both arrows in the middle ring.
Yadav, Abhishek Verma and Safe Saina passed at the final place on a team of compound men with a loss of one point to surprise Kazakhstan.
The Indian trio, led by two points at halfway point, cracks under pressure and shoots inconsistently at the back end to fell 229-230 to Sergey Khrischich, Andrey Tyutyun and Akbarali Karabayev.
India will face a local favorite of Bangladesh in a bronze medal clash of a compound men’s team.
India was also lost in the semifinals of women’s compound team events because they were disappointed with inexexperienced and failed to take advantage of the small field of six teams.
After seeing to the semifinals, the seeds of the two Indians suffered a 227-220 defeat in Iran’s hand and will now face Kazakhstan in the bronze medal play-off.
Jyothi and teammates the Team of Priya Gurjar and Parneet Kaur are not suitable for their rivals and only managed two years at the first tip.
The Iranian team of Geesa Bybordy, Raheleh Farsi and Khoshnoudikia Khoshnoudikia, on the other hand, shot 11 Perfect 10s of the first 12 arrows to jump to seven points before sealing the same problem with the margin.
On Monday, the former gold medalist Asian Games Verma established the semi-final clash against Mohit Deshwal which had not been paid in a compound individual part to confirm his first medal.
The triple silver world championship Jyothi medal also made the semifinals in a compound part of being someone else in India in female individual parts.
Indian archers confirm three medals, facing Korean ‘nemesis’ in all finals
