Press Trust of India
Mexico City, Oct 26: Deepika Kumari bagged her fourth silver medal in five years at the ‘Archery World Cup Final’ after she went down to Korea’s Choi Misun here Sunday.
Eyeing her first gold medal in five attempts at the showpiece season-ending event, Deepika won her quarters and semifinals easily but lost 2-6 against the reigning World No. 1 and top-seeded Misun.
India thus concluded their campaign with two silver medals with Abhishek Verma opening the account for the country in the compound section Saturday.
Deepika and Misun split points in the first set after shooting 29 each but the 19-year-old Korean put her Indian opponent on the back-foot reeling off two more 29-point sets to take an unassailable 5-1 lead.
Both the archers scored 28 points each in the last to split the set points as it was another disappointing end for Deepika.
“I wish I had won gold,” Deepika admitted after the summit clash. “It’s something that doesn’t seem to happen to me.”
This was Deepika’s fourth World Cup Final silver after finishing runner-up at Istanbul (2011), Tokyo (2012) and Paris (2013), an unparalleled achievement in consistency on the circuit.
“My arrows went up. I tried to fix my sight but nothing worked,” explained Deepika.
