![]() ![]() An archer's position after the ranking round becomes their seeding for matchplay. They are ranked from highest to lowest at the end of the round. Archers shoot 72 arrows at the target set 70 metres away, in 12 series of six arrows. The qualifying round results are used to seed the athletes and nations for the individual, mixed team and team competitions, deciding their opponents in the competition. Send in your wishes for #TeamIndia with #Cheer4India /0QKAImz6YI South Korea's An San created a new #Olympic record with a score of 680. India begins its #Tokyo2020 journey with finishing 9th with a score of 663 in the Women's recurve archery ranking round. I want to show my best performance here and I will show that in my next rounds,” Deepika vowed to come back strong. “I’m talking to myself, I’m controlling my emotions and trying to make myself better and better. Two years after she lost at the same venue to San at the 'Tokyo 2020 Test Event' here, Deepika would look to avenge her final defeat. On her slip-up in the final six sets, she said: “I don’t know why it was like that I was trying to control my shots so that I could play better.”ĭeepika’s biggest challenge is likely to be in the last-eight where she might run into San who is making her Olympic debut. “I feel my performance was good as well as bad.It was in between I would say,” Deepika said. But she slipped in the back-end and was woefully out of mark with two 53s in the eighth and penultimate end to slip behind, while Mexican Alejandra Valencia climbed to the fourth place. Jang Minhee (677) finished second.ĭeepika fancied her chances at the halfway mark (36 arrows) as she occupied the fourth place with 334 points, one point ahead of Korean heavyweight Kang Chae Wong. ![]() The world record (692) is held by Kang Chae Wong, the world No.3 who finished third with 675 points for a Korean top-three in the qualification round. ![]()
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