Last Updated: July 25, 2024, 11:38 IST
Paris 2024 Olympics LIVE: Catch all the latest updates from the Paris Olympics events being held on Thursday, July 25, 2024. Stay updated as India’s Paris 2024 Olympics campaign begins today with archery ranking round in Les Invalides.
India’s campaign at the 2024 Paris Olympics gets underway today with a host of archers in action in the women’s and men’s individual ranking rounds. Deepika Kumari, Tarundeep Rai, Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur, Pravin Ramesh Jadhav and Dhiraj Bommadevara will aim to secure a top-10 finish in this qualifying round for a favourable draw.
India have never won an Olympic archery medal.
The qualification round decides the seedings for the knockout competition slated to get underway from Sunday. The archers have to shoot 72 arrows each which determines their rankings for the single-elimination bracket.
The top-ranked archer takes on the lowest-ranked archer, the second-ranked against the second-lowest and so on.
As for the team events, the same rankings are used to determine seedings.
For men’s/women’s team events, the total of the archer’s scores from is used while for mixed team event, the total of men’s and women’s from each nation is used.
The top four seeded teams in the men’s and women’s events are given a direct entry into the quarters while those seeded between 5 and 12 will square off in round of 16 with the winner advancing into the quarters.
In the mixed team event though only the top-16 get an entry.
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