Live streaming, Archery World Cup 2024: All eyes on Deepika Kumari at Yecheon - full schedule, where to watch
Indian archers won a record haul of eight medals at the Archery World Cup Stage 1 in Shanghai and will be looking for a similar performance in South Korea. Watch live!
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Three-time Olympian Deepika Kumari will spearhead the Indian challenge at the Archery World Cup 2024 Stage 2, which starts in Yecheon, Republic of Korea starting Tuesday.
The Archery World Cup Stage 2 in Yecheon will be held between May 21 and 26. Live streaming will be available in India.
India have sent the same 16-member archery team that took part in the first stage of the Archery World Cup in Shanghai, the People’s Republic of China last month.
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.
All eyes will be on Deepika Kumari, who won the silver medal in the women’s recurve event in Shanghai, after losing to Korean archer Lim Sihyeon in the gold medal match.
It was Deepika’s second consecutive medal at the international level since returning from a 14-month maternity break. She won the gold medal at the Asia Cup in February.
Deepika is yet to obtain a quota for India in archery for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Based on the performances of the archers in the first two stages, the Indian team for the third stage of the World Cup in Antalya, Turkiye from June 18 to 23 will be selected. It will be the final qualifying event for recurve archers before the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The Indian men’s recurve team of Tarundeep Rai, Pravin Jadhav and Dhiraj Bommadevara clinched the gold medal at the Archery World Cup in Shanghai. They stunned the top-seeded team from South Korea 5-1 in the final.
This was the men’s recurve team’s first Archery World Cup gold medal in 14 years.
India also managed to clinch the mixed team recurve bronze courtesy Ankita Bhakat and Bommadevara. India’s eight-member squad in recurve archery also doubles up as the provisional squad for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
In the non-Olympic compound events, India’s archers won five medals, including four golds, to finish the Shanghai meet with eight medals. It was the country’s best tally at any single edition of an archery World Cup and the compound archers will be looking to repeat a similar performance in Yecheon.
The winners of the individual events will automatically qualify for the Archery World Cup Final to be held in Tlaxcala, Mexico in October.
Where to watch Archery World Cup 2024 Yecheon live in India
The Archery World Cup 2024 Yecheon compound and recurve finals on May 25 and 26 will be streamed live on Archery+. There will be no live telecast of the event on any TV channel in India.
Archery World Cup 2024 Yecheon: India team
Compound Men: Priyansh, Prathamesh Fuge, Abhishek Verma, Rajat Chauhan
Compound Women: Avneet Kaur, Parneet Kaur, Aditi Gopichand Swami, Jyothi Surekha Vennam
Recurve Men: Tarundeep Rai, Mrinal Chauhan, Pravin Jadhav, Dhiraj Bommadevara
Recurve Women: Bhajan Kaur, Ankita Bhakat, Komalika Bari, Deepika Kumari
Archery World Cup 2024 Yecheon schedule
- May 21, Tuesday: Practice and qualification.
- May 22, Wednesday: Team eliminations and qualification (compound team matches and recurve qualifications)
- May 23, Thursday: Individual eliminations, team eliminations and bronze medal matches (recurve team matches and compound individual matches)
- May 24, Friday: Mixed team eliminations and individual eliminations (mixed team matches and recurve individual matches)
- May 25, Saturday: Compound finals
- May 26, Sunday: Recurve finals