Tokyo Olympics: Archery LIVE Day 0, July 23 - Indian Men Archers finish below 30 places - Updates, Scores, Result, Blog

1st half

Hitting an unimpressive 54 slips Atanu's position to 12th. His best arrow in round 2 remains a single 10. 

Tarundeep slips to 34thn position with a 54 as well. Whereas, Pravin climbs from 40th to the 38th position with a 55. 

Placed in 20A, a look at Atanu's first-round performance in the 1st half.

 

Atanu Das in 5th position

And the proceedings begin!

Atanu Das hits a 58, to be in the 5th position after round 1 of the first half. 

Tarundeep Rai 55 points in the 31st position and Pravin Jadhav in the 40th position with 51 points.

ICYMI: Deepika Kumari got a chance to act in a Hindi film

In 2018, the ace archer was supposed to make her debut in a film in the lead role. The film, tentatively titled 'Bisahi' was a movie based on witch-hunting.\

Read to know more.

After Deepika, it's time for the men archers

Though not deemed as medal contenders India's men archers — Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai and Praveen Jadhav will be in action in the men's individual ranking round. Since their won't be any broadcast of their competition today. Don't forget to follow our LIVE blog for all the latest updates.

Meet Deepika Kumari's opponent for the next round - Bhutan's Karma

Karma is the first-ever Bhutanese athlete to earn a direct qualification for the Olympics. She achieved this feat back in the year 2019. Karma had even competed in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics as a wild card.

Read more about the star archer from Bhutan here.

A lot at stake for Indian men

The three Indian men - Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai and Praveen Jadhav, who will be in action in just over an hour, are not the favourites for a podium finish by any means. They do not really have the limelight with the focus of the nation entirely on women's world number 1 Deepika Kumari. They are the underdogs.

But, there is a lot at stake for the three. While Das and Rai have been around for quite some time, this will be Jadhav's first-ever Olympic appearance. 

Though the Indian fans and media have hyped up Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das as the Mixed team pair, it is not really so. As per the rules of World Archery, the top two archers across genders are expected to pair up. Will Atanu Das come up trumps under pressure? Or will we see Tarundeep Rai or Praveen Jadhav pair up with Deepika? Stay tuned to find out.

Deepika fizzles out towards the end

Having started off strongly, Deepika Kumari fizzled out towards the end to finish ninth in the Women's Individual Ranking round.

You can read the complete match report here.

That's it for now. But stay tuned as the Indian men's trio of Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai and Praveen Jadhav take to the field in a bit.

The South Koreans mean Business!

Competing in their first-ever Olympics, the South Korean trio of An San, Jang Minhee and Kang Chaeyoung took swept the first three positions with 680, 677 and 675 points respectively. All three of them went past the previous Olympic Record (OR) of 673 by Ukraine's Lina Herasymenko.

An San now holds the OR for her brilliant 680 out of a possible 720.

Mexico's Alejandra Valencia (674) and USA's Mackenzie Brown (668) rounded off the top 5.

Deepika Kumari ends at 9th position

Deepika Kumari shot 54 in the final round of the Women's Individual Ranking Round and finished at the ninth position with 663 points. A poor second half means that the 27-year-old Indian could not really maintain her fourth position which she had at the end of the second half. She will now face Bhutan's Karma who finished 56th with a personal best of 616 points.