Deepika Kumari clinches Gold in Archery World Cup Stage event

In Archery, Deepika Kumari clinched a gold medal in the women's recurve event at stage three of World Cup in Salt Lake City of US. Deepika defeated Michelle Kroppen of Germany 7-3.

With the win, the four-time World Cup final silver medalist has automatically qualified for the Archery World Cup Final to be held in Samsun of Turkey later this year.

Deepika's last victory at a World Cup stage event came six years ago at Antalya.

In the medal standings, India finished fourth behind US, Colombia and Chinese Taipei with a gold, silver and bronze each in the penultimate stage of the World Cup.

India's Asian Games-bound archery squad will now head to Berlin to take part in fourth stage of World Cup from 16th to 22nd of next month.

Source: AIR News