Live streaming, Archery World Cup 2024: Deepika Kumari, Jyothi Vennam in action at Antalya - full schedule, where to watch
Indian archers won two medals in the compound events at the Archery World Cup Stage 2 in Yecheon and won eight medals in Stage 1 in Shanghai. Watch Stage 3 live!
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Three-time Olympian Deepika Kumari and Asian Games champion Jyothi Surekha Vennam will lead the Indian charge at the Archery World Cup 2024 Stage 3, which gets underway in Antalya, Turkiye from Tuesday.
The Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Antalya will be held between June 18 and 23. Live streaming will be available in India.
India will field a 12-member archery team at the Antalya Archery World Cup.
India emerged as the top team at the first stage in Shanghai after winning a total of eight medals. The tally included five gold medals, two silver and one bronze. Indian archers won two medals in the second stage in Yecheon. The women’s compound team bagged a gold while the mixed compound team clinched a silver.
In Antalya, all eyes will be on former world No. 1 Deepika Kumari, who won the silver medal in the women’s recurve event in Shanghai, after losing to the Republic of Korea’s Lim Sihyeon in the final. She had also won the gold medal at the Asia Cup in February.
Deepika failed to obtain a quota for India in archery for the Paris 2024 Olympics at the recent Final Olympic Qualifiers, held at the same venue before the World Cup. However, Bhajan Kaur clinched gold in the qualifiers to secure a Paris 2024 quota for India. Ankita Bhakat also progressed to the quarter-finals in the women’s recurve.
However, as National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games, athletes' participation at the Paris Games depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation at Paris 2024.
Dhiraj Bommadevara, who secured an individual men’s recurve archery quota from the Asian Continental Qualifier Tournament in Bangkok last year, will also compete in men’s recurve events in the Antalya World Cup.
India’s individual quotas, however, can be upgraded to team quotas if the men’s and women’s teams can make the cut through their world rankings on June 24. It will entitle India to two additional quotas in each individual event.
The Indian men’s and women’s teams had failed to obtain direct quotas from the qualifiers.
The Archery World Cup Stage 3 Antalya will be the final event for recurve archers before the Paris 2024 Olympics qualifying window ends. Both the Indian teams are favourably placed in the world rankings list for team quotas.
The Antalya meet will also be the final World Cup stage of the 2024 series before the Archery World Cup Final to be held in Tlaxcala, Mexico in October.
The winners of the individual events in each World Cup stage automatically qualify for the Archery World Cup Final. Other spots in the Tlaxcala meet will be based on World Cup Rankings, which is based on points accrued through performances over the three preliminary stages.
In the non-Olympic compound events, India’s archers won five medals, including four golds at the Stage 1 in Shanghai. Jyothi Surekha Vennam won the gold medal in the women’s compound event and is already qualified for the Final.
Aditi Gopichand Swami, the reigning compound women’s world champion, and veteran men’s archer Abhishek Verma will also compete in Antalya.
Where to watch Archery World Cup 2024 Antalya live in India
Select finals and semi-finals at the Archery World Cup 2024 Antalya will be broadcast live on Sony Sports Ten 2 and Sony Ten 2 HD TV channels in India on June 22 and 23. Live streaming of the event will also be available on the Archery+ platform.
Archery World Cup 2024 Antalya: India team
Compound Men: Priyansh, Prathamesh Fuge, Abhishek Verma
Compound Women: Parneet Kaur, Aditi Gopichand Swami, Jyothi Surekha Vennam
Recurve Men: Tarundeep Rai Pravin Jadhav, Dhiraj Bommadevara
Recurve Women: Bhajan Kaur, Ankita Bhakat, Deepika Kumari
Archery World Cup 2024 Antalya schedule
- June 18, Tuesday: Practice and qualification
- June 19, Wednesday: Team eliminations and qualification (compound team matches and recurve qualifications)
- June 20, Thursday: Individual eliminations and team eliminations (recurve team matches and compound individual matches)
- June 21, Friday: Mixed team eliminations and individual eliminations (mixed team matches and recurve individual matches)
- June 22, Saturday: Compound finals
- June 23, Sunday: Recurve finals