Paris, July 25: Prior to the opening ceremony on Friday, Indian archers have brought good news for India.
India sealed a top four spot on Thursday in the women's team event, thereby directly qualifying for the quarter-finals. Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur and Deepika Kumari all finished in the top 32.
Ankita finished 11th with a score of 666, while fellow debutant Bhajan finished 22nd on 659. Deepika Kumari finished third on 658 points. India's Olympics 2024 campaign gets underway with archery, as the individual ranking rounds begin one day before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games.
It is the first time since London 2012 that Indian archers have been able to claim all six of the available quota places and they aim to end India's rather perplexing duck of Olympic medals in archery.
As per schedule, having started on Thursday, archery will go on till August 4 at the Paris Games.
Indian women team includes - Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Bhajan Kaur.
The men's team has veteran Tarundeep Rain, Pravin Jadhav and Dhiraj Bommadevara.
After Thursday's ranking rounds, women's team event will follow on Sunday and the men's team event will take place Monday. The men's and women's individual knockout rounds will then be held on July 30, 31 and August 1. The mixed team events are then scheduled to be held on August 2, followed by the women's and men's medal events on the subsequent two days.
