Following her hat-trick of gold medals at the World Cup stage 3, Deepika Kumari reclaimed the world no. 1 ranking in archery late in June. Deepika had achieved the no. 1 for the first time in her career in 2012, becoming the first Indian after Dola Banerjee to achieve the feat.
Even though Deepika entered the Tokyo Olympics as the top-ranked archer, she faltered at the event once again, losing against South Korea in the quarter-finals of both the women’s individual and mixed team events.
Deepika first combined with Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari to notch up the women’s recurve team gold with a comfortable win over Mexico.
She then paired up with husband Atanu Das and the couple from a 0-2 deficit to down the Netherland’s Sjef van den Berg and Gabriela Schloesser 5-3 for the gold medal.
The Ranchi archer then blanked 17th ranked Russian Elena Osipova 6-0 to cap a perfect three out of three in the recurve women’s section, her fourth individual World Cup gold medal.
Overall, she has nine gold, 12 silver and seven bronze medals in the World Cup.
Credit : The Hindu
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