Rising star Prathamesh Fuge pushed defending champion Mathias Fullerton in the men's compound semifinal at the Archery World Cup Final before missing out on medal after losing a tense shoot-off. (More Sports News)
In a thrilling end-to-end cont📖est here on Saturday, both archers shot perfect 10s throughout all five regulation ends, totaling 15 arrows each, without droppꦗing a single point.
The match was deadlocked 150 all, forci🅷ng a nail-biting sho💝ot-off to decide the winner.
The shoot-off resulted in another 10-all tie, but the Danish archer edged out the Indian by mere millimeters, with his arrow landing clꦏoser to the centre.
A win would have confirmed a ꧃maiden medal for Fuge who was then left to fight the bronze playoff and lost to world champion Mike Schloesser 146-150.
Fullerton eventually settled for a⛄ silver after losing to American James 'Jimmy' Lutz 149-150.
Fuge earlier got the better of fellow Indian Priyansh 147-146 in the quart𒁏erfinal. Two Indians made the cut to the eight-member draw in the World Cup Final.
Mu🍌ltiple Worl🍒d Cup medalist Jyothi Surekha Vennam, who was the lone Indian qualifier in the women's compound section, returned empty-handed from her second successive appearance.
Like last year, Jyothi's campaign ended in the quarter𒈔s, going down to Meeri-Marita Paas of Estonia 145-147.
Deepika Kum🐻ari and Dhiraj Bommadevara will lead India's ca🐟mpaign in the recurve categories later on Sunday.
