Atanu crashes out: Archery campaign ends on disappointing note

TOKYO: Atanu Das failed to keep his nerve when it mattered most after making a good comeback against Japan's Takaharu Furukawa, losing the Men's Individual Round-of-16 Elimination duel 6-4 at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.

Das failed to score a 10 in the fifth set and slipped to the red-circle for an 8, which proved costly, as Furukawa sealed the issue by a solitary point margin in the decider.

That ended India's campaign in archery at the Tokyo Olympics. They had reached Tokyo with high hopes after a good performance in the World Cup Stage III event in Paris last month but are returning home without any medal as Das, the top-ranked archer in the world for some time during the build-up phase, was the lone male archer to reach this stage.

The lone contestant in the women's section, Deepika Kumari, the world No. 1 before the Tokyo Olympics, fell by the wayside in the quarterfinals on Friday.

The Mixed Team of Pravin Jadhav and Deepika Kumari lost to South Korea in the quarterfinal IANS

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