Olympic Games Paris 2024 LIVE: Archer Ankita Bhakat Best-placed Indian in Ranking Round:
The paris olympics Opening Ceremony will be held on July 26 from 11 PM IST onwards. 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 got underway today with a host of archers in action in the women’s and men’s individual ranking rounds. Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur and deepika Kumari have secured 11th, 22nd and 23rd seedings respectively for the individual event while also qualifying for the women’s team quarters.Tarundeep Rai, Pravin Ramesh Jadhav and Dhiraj Bommadevara will be in action later this evening. india have never won an Olympic archery medal.
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.