Deepika Kumari News

Atanu Das lost a one-sided bronze playoff to reigning Olympic champion Mete Gazoz of Turkey 6-0 (27-29, 26-27, 28-30). He doubled up as Deepika Kumari’s coach when the world number two lost in the shoot-off to Olympic team bronze-medallist Michelle Kroppen.

In his last-16 match slated on Saturday, Atanu Das will face home favourite Takaharu Furukawa, an individual silver medallist at the 2012 Olympics and a team bronze winner here.

It was some tight shooting from both archers from there on as Deepika edged out narrowly (28-27) courtesy a 10 in her first arrow. A 10 eluded Deepika in the fourth set as both players hit an identical 9-8-9 to take the match to the fifth set with the Indian in the driver's set with a 5-3 lead.

Atanu Das said he and Deepika Kumari, who married in a low-key ceremony in July last year, are staying in separate rooms in the Athletes’ Village but they train together and are with each other most of the time. They did not team up for the mixed team competition, though, with Kumari and Pravin Jadhav losing to South Korea in the quarter-finals.

With the victory, Deepika progressed to the round of 16.

South Korea's An San and Kim Je Deok defeated the Indian pair 6-2 in the quarterfinals of the Archery Mixed Team event in the ongoing Tokyo Olympics.

The men’s trio’s combined performance was just enough to finish inside top-10 as they totalled 1961 for a ninth place finish in their first Olympic appearance since London 2012. The Indian men’s team had failed to qualify for the 2016 Rio Games and Das was the only male competitor in the individual section.

Deepika’s biggest challenge is likely to be in the last-eight where she might run into San who is making her Olympic debut. Two years after she lost at the same venue to San at the 'Tokyo 2020 Test Event' here, Deepika would look to avenge her final defeat.

Competing in her third successive Olympics, two-time world No. 1 Deepika has seen it all, from the lows of London to hitting rock-bottom at Rio 2016. Five years down the line, the firebrand archer from Ranchi is in the form of her life having already won five World Cup gold medals in recent times.

The delayed Tokyo Olympics will finally get underway on Friday (July 23) and India will be hoping for their highest-ever medal haul from these Games. India has sent their biggest-ever contingent with 119 athletes competing in 85 different medal categories. In these collection of pictures, we take a look at India's top medal contenders at the Tokyo Olympics.

The COVID-19 pandemic-postponed Tokyo Olympics is already underway and India athletes will be seen in action from Friday (July 23). Indian athletes in the Olympic village are fighting a dual war, and are under pressure. First is the pressure of the approaching games which start in two days and the second is that of Covid-19. But most of them are remaining focussed about performing at the biggest sporting stage. In these collection of pictures, we take a look at how some of India's top athletes are gearing up for Tokyo Olympic Games.

Top Indian archers, including world no.1 Deepika Kumari, raised concerns about Yamuna Sports Complex being converted into a cricket field.

At the start of the day, India women’s recurve team comprising of Deepika Kumari, Komalika Bari, and Ankita Bhakat bagged a gold medal at the Archery World Cup Stage 3 in the French capital. The team defeated Mexico 5-1 in the finals. The upcoming tournament, of course, is the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which are less than a month away.

India made an unprecedented clean sweep at the World Cup Stage 3 on Sunday. Star archer Deepika Kumari led from the front and grabbed a hat-trick of gold medals.

Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari won gold medal at archery World Cup Stage 3 They scored a 5-3 win over the Netherlands It was India`s second gold medal of the day at the event

The two-time Olympian, however, held her ground in the fifth, shooting a 29 and displaying the kind of resilience she’s oft been accused of lacking. Deepika shot first and shot a nine, about one centimetre out of the 10-ring to the right. That single arrow added a second gold on the day to complement the recurve women’s team gold India won over Mexico.

While Das will make his second successive appearance at the Olympics, it will be third straight Olympic Games for Deepika in Tokyo 2021.

Deepika Kumari and Ankita Bhakat on Thursday entered the semi-finals of the women`s recurve archery event in the ongoing Asian Archery Championships. With this win, India also assured itself of one Olympic quota.

Indian archer Deepika Kumari on Sunday clinched a bronze medal in the Archery World Cup Finals in Turkey. It was Kumari’s fifth podium finish in the World Cup Finals. 

Her build-up to the Asian Games was affected by a bout of fever but India's star recurve archer, Deepika Kumari, is now getting ready to erase the bitter memories of the 2014 Incheon edition, in Jakarta.