Paris 2024 Olympics archery: Pravin Jadhav knocked out; India’s challenge in men’s events ends

India’s Pravin Jadhav bowed out in the first round of the Paris 2024 Olympics men’s individual archery event after losing to the People’s Republic of China’s Kao Wenchao on Wednesday.

Jadhav, who made the second round at Tokyo 2020, managed one worse at Paris 2024 as he lost the contest 6-0 (29-28, 30-29, 28-27). The Indian archer was seeded 39th while the Chinese was the 26th seed.

Archers compete in best-of-five sets in the individual archery events at the Olympics. Each archer shoots three arrows per set and the archer with the higher aggregate score earns two points. If a set is drawn, each archer is awarded one point.

With Jadhav’s exit, the Indian challenge in men’s individual archery events at Paris 2024 also ended. Four-time Olympian Tarundeep Rai had bowed out in the opening round itself while Dhiraj Bommadevara suffered a heartbreaking narrow defeat in the second.

The trio also failed to make it past the quarter-finals in the men’s team event.

Dhiraj, partnering Ankita Bhakat, will, however, have one last shot at a medal for Paris 2024 in the mixed team event, which starts from Friday.

Meanwhile, Deepika Kumari and Bhajan Kaur have both made it to the pre-quarterfinals of the individual women’s event but Ankita crashed out in the first round.

The women’s team, like the men, were knocked out in the quarters.