Sports News | Deepika Back in Top-16 in Archery Trials
Get latest articles and stories on Sports at LatestLY. Making a comeback about a month after becoming a mother, three-time Olympian Deepika Kumari made the top-16 cut by finishing ninth in the first open archery selection trials for the Asian Games, World Championships and World Cups, here on Sunday.
Kolkata, Jan 15 (PTI) Making a comeback about a month after becoming a mother, three-time Olympian Deepika Kumari made the top-16 cut by finishing ninth in the first open archery selection trials for the Asian Games, World Championships and World Cups, here on Sunday.
Deepika shot a total of 2597 points out of a maximum 2880 in the eight rounds of 70-metre distance in the women's recurve section.
Deepika's husband and India number one Atanu Das, who was sidelined from the Indian team last year, finished second with a score of 2749 to make the top-16 in the men's recurve section.
B Dhiraj topped the pool with 2767 points, while former Olympians Tarundeep Rai, Pravin Jadhav and Jayanta Talukdar also made the cut.
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The only casualty was that of reigning national champion Sachin Gupta, who fell by the wayside finishing 19th.
The top-16 will be pitted against each other in round-robin matches to decide the top-eight over the next two days.
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