The loss brought an end to Deepika Kumari’s campaign at Tokyo 2020 - she had earlier also been eliminated in the mixed team archery event alongside Pravin Jadhav by eventual champions South Korea.ĭeepika Kumari’s husband Atanu Das is the only remaining Indian archer at the Olympics - he progressed to the men’s individual round of 16. Ren Hayakawa, the naturalised Japanese Olympic archer who was born and raised in South Korea, said that unlike her older sister who represented Japan in archery. With just a few days left for the biggest sporting extravaganza on the. 1 Deepika Kumari had earlier beaten two-time Olympic silver-medallist Ksenia Perova of ROC 6-5 in a shootoff in the round of 16. Tokyo Olympics 2020- Mary Kom, PV Sindhu, Deepika Kumari - Indian Athletes Start Training Ahead of Summer Games©PTI-Twitter. The South Korean soon took the second set 26-24, shooting 10, 9, 7 to Deepika Kumari’s 10, 7, 7.ĭeepika Kumari, a three-time Olympian, then shot 24 (7, 8, 9) but An San shot 26 (8, 9, 9) to take the third set and win the match. This was the second successive round two exit for three-time Olympian Rai. Tokyo 2020: Olympics - Deepika Kumari advances archery R16. The conditions were a little less windy at the Yumenoshima Park Archery Field than in the morning.Īn San won the first set with three 10s, beating Deepika Kumari’s two 10s and a 7. TOKYO: India experienced a perfect start to their archery campaign at the Olympics on Saturday as the mixed duo of Deepika Kumari and Pravin Jadhav bounced back from behind to knock out Chinese Taipei and book a quarterfinal berth. Tokyo 2020: Olympics - Deepika Kumari advances archery R16. The 20-year-old An San had earlier won the mixed team archery gold and the women’s team gold at Tokyo 2020. Tokyo Olympics 2020 LIVE Updates: India is being represented by its largest-ever contingent of 127 athletes at the Tokyo Games, which also includes the highest female representation of 56. Indian archer Deepika Kumari’s quest for a maiden Olympic medal continued as she bowed out of the Tokyo Olympics after losing 6-0 to top seed An San of South Korea in the women’s individual archery event.
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