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Deepika, men's recurve team reach final in World Cup

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Jan 21 2013 | 4:10 AM IST

Deepika defeated Chinese Taipei's Lin Chia-En 6-1 in the semifinals in the individual recruve event and will play Korea's Lee Sung Jin in the summit clash tomorrow.

The men's recurve team, comprising Rahul Banerjee, Jayanta Talukdar and Tarundeep Rai defeated Korea 225-224 points in the semifinals.

They will play Great Britain in the final tomorrow.

The women's team, consisting Laishram Bombayla Devi, Chekrovolu Swuro and Deepika Kumari, went down to Chinese Taipei in the quarter-finals at 210-223.

Both the Indian compound teams lost in the quarterfinals. The men went down to the US 232-234 while the women lost to Italy 223-232.

National compound men's champion Rajat Chauhan of Rajasthan reached the quarterfinals only to lose to Braden Gellenthien of the US in the tie-breaker.

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Both archers shot 144 points each. In the one-arrow tie-breaker, both scored a 10 each. The American won the contest as his shot was found to be closer to the centre.

The Indian men's recurve team who ended fifth with a total of 2012 points will compete in the team elimination today.

The Indian women's recurve team finished seventh with 1920. The men's compound team ended eighth with 2086 as the women's team was sixth with 2024.

  

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First Published: May 04 2012 | 8:35 PM IST

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