Ace India archer Deepika Kumari shrugged off her inferior run of form by clinching the gold medal in the women’s recurve event at the World Cup , beating Germany’s Michelle Kroppen by 7-3 to qualify for the circuit Final, scheduled later this year.<\/p>\n
Deepika, a four-time World Cup final silver medallist , automatically qualified for the Archery World Cup Final in Samsun, Turkey, which will be her seventh appearance at the season-ending event.<\/p>\n
“Finally!. That’s what I said when I won this gold medal,” said Deepika, whose last victory at a World Cup stage event came six years ago, in Antalya back in 2012.<\/p>\n
The ace Indian archer opened the match with 29 out of a 30 possible points to take a 2-0 lead, before splitting the points with kroppen in the second.<\/p>\n
The German archer, making her individual debut in the finals arena, won the third set and tied the match at 3-3. Deepika then took the fourth and fifth sets with a 29 and a 27, over Michelle’s pair of 26s, to win the match, 7-3.<\/p>\n
“I was repeating to myself, just do it the best, this is your time; just enjoy your game and forget about winning or losing and have fun,” Deepika told the official website of World Archery Federation.<\/p>\n
“Do I feel relieved to qualify? Yes and no. I’m not expecting anything, at the moment I’m just enjoying my game, I want to enjoy my game,” said Deepika, who has often failed to live up to expectations at the biggest stage like the Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ace India archer Deepika Kumari shrugged off her inferior run of form by clinching the gold medal in the women’s recurve event at the World Cup , beating Germany’s Michelle Kroppen by 7-3 to qualify for the circuit Final, scheduled later this year. Deepika, a four-time World Cup final silver medallist , automatically qualified for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35187,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35185\/revisions\/35187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}