World primary archer Deepika Kumari’s quest for an Olympic medal led to heartbreak for the third time as she surrendered tamely to Korean prime seed An San in straight units within the quarterfinals right here on Friday.
Deepika misfired 4 7s as An, who had damaged a 25-year-old Olympic document en path to topping the rating spherical, wrapped up the ladies’s particular person match 6-0 in lower than six minutes.
For the three-time Olympian Deepika, this was yet one more heartbreaking outing on the Video games.
Within the 2016 Rio Olympics, she had misplaced within the pre-quarterfinals, whereas at her maiden Olympics in London, the place she had gone as a primary ranked participant, she had crashed out within the opening spherical.
Deepika’s husband Atanu Das is the one Indian left in competition for a medal as he made the pre-quarterfinals on Thursday with a shocking shoot-off win over two-time Olympic champion Oh Jin Hyek.
In his last-16 match slated on Saturday, Das will face residence favorite Takaharu Furukawa, a person silver medallist on the 2012 Olympics and a workforce bronze winner right here Earlier in her last-16 match, Deepika held her nerves to pip 2017 world champion Ksenia Perova of the Russian Olympic Committee in an exhilarating one-arrow shoot-off to seal a 6-5 (10-7) win.
Locked 5-5 after the regulation five-setter, the 27-year-old Indian delivered an ideal 10, hitting the bull’s eye, to topple the workforce silver medallist on the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Beginning off the one-arrow shoot-off, the Russian crumbled underneath strain as she misfired a 7 as a composed Deepika completed it off in fashion. PTI
