The Indian compound women's archery team of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami and Parneet Kaur continued their imperious form this season, securing a hat-trick of World Cup gold medals with a win over Estonia, even as Priyansh settled for a silver in Antalya on Saturday. (More Sports News)
Priyansh narrowly lost the men's finalꩵ to world nu🌄mber one Mike Schloesser.
Entering the final as the top-seeded team, t✤he women's trio displayed their prowess by defeating Estonia's Lisell Jaatma, Meeri-Marita Paas, and Maris Tetsmann 232-229 in a one-sided final of the stage 3 event.
The women's compound team has been invincible this season🌳, winning all three World Cup stages.
They previously secured gold at stage 1 in Shanghai and stage 2 in Yecheon👍 in April and May respectively, making them unbeaten champions in the 2024 World Cup series.
Later in the day, rising compound archer Priyansh failed to defeat Dutch heavyweight Schl﷽oesser for a second time this season and settled for a ru🧔nner-up finish.
Priyansh, who showed flawless shooting to enter the final,꧅ dropped a po๊int in the opening set and could not overcome the deficit as Schloesser shot a series of 10s to clinch the match 149-148.
It was in the final set that the Dutch arche🧸r dropped a point as Priyansh needed a♚ perfect 30 score to clinch the gold, but the Indian missed one point to finish second best.
🌳In the semifinal, the 21-year-old landed all his 15 arrows in the perfect-10 ring to knock out World No. 2 Mathias Fullerton by one point, thus also exacting his defeat of the la꧂st World Cup.
At the stage 2 World Cup in Yecheon last month, the Danish archer had eliminated Priyansh in the pre-quart🍸ers in a tig𒐪ht shoot-off finish.
For Priyansh, this was his second World 🐭Cup silver. At the season-opening World Cup in Shanghai in April this year, Priyansh had lost to World No. 8 Nico Wiener of Austria 147-150 in the final.
India will be aiming for thre👍e medals in the recurve finals on Sunday.
Ankita Bhakat and Dhiraj Bommadevara are in th🌱e hunt for tw൲o medals, having advanced to their respective individual semifinals.
Thꩲe mixed team of Dhir൩aj and Bhajan will take on their Mexico rivals in the bronze playoff.
