Asian archery championships | Tarundeep Rai returns to Indian squad
The Hindu
The seasoned Tarundeep Rai made a comeback to the Indian recurve men’s squad for the Asian archery championships, a continental Olympic qualifying event, to be held in Bangkok from November 3 to 10
The seasoned Tarundeep Rai made a comeback to the Indian recurve men’s squad for the Asian archery championships, a continental Olympic qualifying event, to be held in Bangkok from November 3 to 10.
At the end of the six-day selection trials held at Sonepat on Thursday, Tarundeep replaced another experienced archer Atanu Das, who was part of the men’s team that won a bronze in the recently concluded Asian Games. Atanu finished outside the top-eight.
Tisha Punia was the lone induction in the recurve women’s squad. Deepika Kumari, who was sixth, could not make it the team.
In compound, Asian Games individual gold winners Ojas Deotale and V. Jyothi Surekha got exemption from the trials.
Silver medallist Abhishek Verma, whose father passed away midway through the trials forcing him to leave them, was selected considering his extraordinary past and present performances, said an Archery Association of India (AAI) official.
Prathamesh Fuge and Priyansh booked their places in the men’s squad, while Muskan Kirar made a return to the women’s squad.
The squad:
Asian Games champion Avinash Sable opened his season in the 3000m steeple chase with a silver in the Portland Track Festival, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze event, in Oregon on Saturday. He clocked 8:21.85s. Asian champion Parul Chaudhary took the bronze in the women’s 3000m steeple chase in a season-best 9:31.38s. Former Asian bronze medallist Sanjivani Jadhav struck gold in the women’s 10,000m in 32:22.77s, a time which was a second off her personal best, while Seema was sixth in 32:55.91s.