The Indian mixed recurve team, consisting of Bhajan Kaur and Dhiraj Bommadevara, defeated the Mexico duo of Alejandra Valencia and Matias Grande by 5-3 in the bronze medal match. Recurve archery is an Olympic event as well.
The world's number one ranked Indian side got better of the Turkish side of Hazal Burun, Ayse Bera Suzer and Begum Yuva in the gold medal match with a scoreline of 232-226, as per Olympics.com.
Dhiraj Bommadevara, the only Indian recurve archer to have grabbed a quota place at the upcoming Paris Olympics, was part of a troika that scripted history at the Archery World Cup Stage 1 in Shanghai earlier this week
The Indian men's recurve team, comprising Tarundeep Rai, Pravin Jadhav, and Dhiraj Bommadevara, faced off against Republic of Korea's Kim Woojin and Kim Je Deok, Lee Woo Seok, securing a remarkable 5-1 victory. This win marked India's first World Cup gold medal in men's recurve team arche
Olympian Tarundeep Rai and women's compound champion Aditi Swami Gopichand will be among 16 archers, eight men and eight women competing at the continental event.
Asian Games gold medalist Annu Rani will head back to Germany's Leichtathletik Gemeinschaft Offenburg Centre to train under foreign coach Werner Daniels, Asian Games Silver medalist Dhiraj Bommadevara will head to Korea's Kim Archery School with his coach Sonam Tshering Bhutia later this mon