India’s Pravin Jadhav lost to Kao Wenchao of the People’s Republic of China on Wednesday, resulting in his elimination from the men’s solo archery competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
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Pravin Jadhav defeat from kao wenchao
Pravin Jadhav, who advanced to the Tokyo 2020 second round, performed badly in Paris 2024, losing 6-0 (29-28, 30-29, 28-27). The Chinese archer was seeded 26th, and the Indian archer was seeded 39th. Olympic archers compete in best-of-five sets in the individual events.
Every archer has three sets of arrows to shoot, and two points are awarded to the archer with the highest total score.A set wins and each archer gets one point. The Indian challenge in the men’s individual archery events at Paris 2024 came to an end with Pravin Jadhav departure.
Tarundeep Rai, a four-time Olympian, had already lost in the first round, while Dhiraj Bom madevara had narrowly lost in the second. In the men’s team event, the three also were unable to go past the quarterfinals. However, Dhiraj will have one more chance to qualify for Paris 2024 with Ankita Bhakat in the mixed team event, which begins on Friday.
.Ankita lost in the opening round of the solo women’s event, but Deepika Kumari and Bhajan Kaur have advanced to the pre-quarterfinals. Similar to the men’s squad, the women’s team was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
India Archery Team : Paris Olympics
India’s six-archer squad is ready to compete for medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. India last competed in the Olympic Summer Games with a fully-stacked archery squad in London in 2012. In Paris, veteran archer Tarundeep Rai and former world No. 1 Deepika Kumari are competing in their fourth Olympics.
Following Tokyo 2020, Pravin Jadhav is also making a comeback to the Olympics for his second time. In addition, Deepika is competing in her first Olympics since becoming a mother.The last four Indian archery competitors for Paris 2024 are competing in their first Olympics.
Les Invalides will host archery events during Paris 2024 from July 25 to August 4.
Men: Pravin Jadhav, Dhiraj Bom madevara, and Tarundeep Rai
Women: Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur, and Deepika Kumari
Indian archers will compete in the men’s team and individual, women’s team and individual, and mixed team medal events at Paris 2024.
This year marks the addition of the mixed team event to the Olympic schedule. The ranking rounds of the archery competitions in Paris 2024 will take place on July 25, one day prior to the formal Opening Ceremony. Every archer fires 72 arrows in the ranking round, and scores are kept track of. Based on results in the ranking phase, the men’s and individual competition seedings are decided.
In terms of the team competitions for men and women,The four teams with the highest seeds from the ranking round will go straight to the quarterfinals. The remaining four quarterfinal spots will be decided by a match between the teams seeded seventh through twelfth.
The ranking round will also determine qualification for the mixed team event, with only the top 16 pairs advancing. The team seeding for each nation fielding a minimum of one men’s and one women’s team is determined by adding the top men’s and top women’s scores from the ranking rounds
The losing semi-finalists in each of the five events will compete for the bronze medal. India has not yet taken home an Olympic medal in archery.