Olympian Dhiraj Bommadevara entered the recurve men’s individual semifinals to stay in medal hunt at the Archery World Cup Stage-3 in Antalya on Friday.
Dhiraj, who got byes in the first two rounds, defeated Germany’s Leon Zemella 6-2, Iran’s Mohammadhossein Golshani Asl 6-2 and Italy’s Massimiliano Mandia 6-2 in the quarterfinals to set up a semifinal clash with another German Moritz Wieser.
Dhiraj, who earlier joined hands with Kumkum Mohod to reach the mixed team final, will have a chance to secure two medals.
No other Indian, including well-known names such as Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Atanu Das in recurve and V. Jyothi Surekha and Parneet Kaur in compound, could make it to individual medal rounds.
The results: Individual:
Recurve:Men: Yashdeep Bhoge bt Senna Roos (Ned) 6-4 (first round), lost to Jarno De Smedt (Bel) 1-7 (second round); Atanu Das bt Javier Merida Gonzalez (Spn) 6-4 (first round), lost to Harun Kirmizitas (Tur) 2-6 (second round); B. Dhiraj got byes in first two rounds, bt Leon Zemella (Ger) 6-2 (third round), bt Mohammadhossein Golshani Asl (Irn) 6-2 (fourth round), bt Massimiliano Mandia (Ita) 6-2 (quarterfinal); Neeraj Chauhan got a bye (first round), bt Abdur Rahman Alif (Ban) 7-3 (second round), bt Francesco Gregori (Ita) 6-0 (third round), lost to Moritz Wieser (Ger) 0-6 (fourth round).
Women: Ankita Bhakat got a bye (first round), bt Quinty Roeffen (Ned) 6-4 (second round), lost to Katharina Bauer (Ger) 2-6 (third round); Kumkum Mohod got byes in first two rounds, lost to Dunya Yenihayat (Tur) 2-6 (third round); Kirti bt Ilaria Latsa (AIN) 7-3 (first round), bt Huand Yuwei (Chn) 6-0 (second round), lost to Hsu Hsin-Tzu (Tpe) 1-7 (third round); Deepika Kumari got byes in first two rounds, bt Li Tsai-Chi (Tpe) 6-2 (third round), lost to Elia Canales (Spn) 2-6 (fourth round).
Compound: Men: Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru got a bye (first round), bt Choi Yonghee (Kor) 148-146 (second round), lost to Nico Wiener (Aut) 143-147 (third round); Kushal Dalal bt Belal Alawadi (KSA) 147-143 (first round), bt Rishabh Yadav 146-146 (shoot-off: 10*-10, shot closer to centre) (second round), lost to Emrican Haney (Tur) 148-149 (third round); Sahil Jadhav got a bye (first round), lost to Juan Carlos Del Rio Gutierrez (Mex) 145-147 (second round).
Women: Prithika Pradeep got a bye (first round), lost to Chen Fang Yi (Tpe) 146-146 (shoot-off: 10-10*) (second round); V. Jyothi Surekha got byes in first two rounds, lost to Tanja Gellenthien (Den) 144-146 (third round); Chikitha Taniparthi got a bye (first round), lost to Yeonseo Kang (Kor) 146-146 (shoot-off: 9-10) (second round); Parneet Kaur got a bye (first round), bt Sydney Sullenberger (USA) 143-142 (second round), lost to Alexa Misis Olivares (Spn) 145-147 (third round).
Published on Jun 12, 2026
