The Indian men's compound team remained in fray for a bronze medal at the World Cup Stage 4 competition in Berlin today. In the bronze medal play-offs, India will take on lower ranked Germany tomorrow.The fifth seeded Indian trio of Abhishek Verma, Aman Saini and Amanjeet Singh started their campaign by defeating Spain 228-222 before getting the better of 13th seeded Sweden team 231-229 in quarterfinals. However, they failed to overcome the top seed USA and lost 228-233 in the semi-finals to make it to the third-fourth place play-off match. In the women's section, third seeded India's compound team of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Trisha Deb and Snehal Mandhare, got a bye to reach the quarterfinals. But they lost to 11th seed South Africa 28-29 in a nail-biting finish in the shoot-off.The compound mixed pair team also went down in the quarterfinals, against Mexico 149-156.In the compound individual section, only Verma and Jyothi could reach the last-eight rounds, while all others made early exits. Meanwhile, Indian recurve archers came up with dismal performance once again with both men and women's teams making quarterfinal exits.
News On AIR | August 11, 2017 7:23 PM
Indian men's compound team enters bronze play-offs