Paris 2024 Olympics Highlights, July 25: Archery Ranking Round - Indian Men's and Women's Archery Team Qualify for Quarterfinals

Paris 2024 Olympics: Archery Ranking Round Live coverage ends

We fold our Live coverage for the Paris Olympics for July 25 as the Indian archers gave the nation early hopes of medals with both Women's and Men's archery teams directly qualify for the quarterfinals.

Dhiraj Bommadevara certainly stars on the day with a fourth-place finish. Now we turn our focus on the Opening Ceremony by the Seine River tomorrow. Keep following mykhel for day-to-day coverage of Paris Olympics.

This is your host Aditya K Halder, signing off for the day!

Paris Olympics Archery Ranking Round Live: Men's Archer Top 10

A look at the top 10 from individual men's ranking round

Paris Olympics Men's Archery Ranking Round: Dhiraj Finishes 4th, Tarundeep 14th and Pravin 39th

Indian archers at the end of Men's Ranking Round

• Rank 4: Dhiraj Bommadevara - 681 points
• Rank 14: Tarundeep Rai - 674 points
• Rank 39: Pravin Jadhav - 656 points
• Rank 3: Indian men's team (2013 points)
• Rank 5: Indian mixed team (1347 Points)

The results mean the Indian men's archery team, alike women's team, directly qualifies for the quarterfinals while the mixed team narrowly misses the quarter berth and will compete in the pre-quarter.

Dhiraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat will team up in the mixed team events as top archers from each categories!

Archery Ranking Round Live:

Indian archers after Set 11/12

• Rank 5: Dhiraj X, X, 10, 9, 9, 8 = 56 (622/660 points)
• Rank 14: Tarundeep - 10, 10, 10, 9, 9, 9 = 57 (618)
• Rank 38: Pravin - X, X, 9, 9, 8, 7 = 53 (603)
• Rank 3: Indian men's team - (1843 points)
• Rank 7: Indian mixed team (1288 points)

Dhiraj improves to 5th place but Kim Woojin is showing his class as he pulls further ahead from the pack and has six-point gap from Dhiraj with a round to go! However drop in performances by Tarundeep and Pravin has impacted the team rankings!

Olympics 2024 Live: Dhiraj trails leader Kim Woojin by 4 Points

Indian archers after Set 10/12

• Rank 6: Dhiraj - X, 10, 10, 10, 9, 9 = 58 (Total: 566/600)
• 13: Tarundeep - X, 9, 9, 9, 9, 8 = 54 (Total: 561)
• 34: Pravin - 10, 9, 9, 9, 9, 8 = 54 (550)

Commendable performance by Dhiraj, who now climbs to 6th spot and is now trailing Korea's No.1 Kim Woojin by just four points. However, with just two sets left, we need something very dramatic for Dhiraj to topple the Korean master!

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Dhiraj and Tarundeep Enter Top 10!

Indian archers after Set 9/12

• Rank 8: Dhiraj - X, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9 = 59 (Total: 508/540 Points)
• Rank 10: Tarundeep - 10, 10, 10, 9, 9, 9 = 57 (Total: 507)
• Rank 32: Pravin - X, X, 10, 10, 9, 9 = 58 (496)
• Rank 2: Indian men's team (1511 Points)
• Rank 7: Indian Mixed team (1174 Points)

Things are looking bright for India at this point as Dhiraj and Tarundeep have entered the top 10 while Pravin also improves and closes towards Top 30! The performances also improves the team ranking to 2nd place!

Paris 2024 Olympics Live: See-saw battle between Dhiraj and Tarundeep

Indian archers after Set 8/12

• Rank 10: Tarundeep - X, 10, 10, 10, 9, 9 = 58 (Total: 450/480)
• 12: Dhiraj - X, 10, 9, 9, 9, 9 = 56 (Total: 449)
• 39: Pravin - X, 10, 10, 9, 8, 8 = 55 (438)
• Rank 3: Indian Men's Team - 1337 Points
• 7: Indian mixed team - 1111 Points

Note: X is bull's eye or the inner circle of 10 (counts 10 and comes into count if two archers are tied on the same points)

Paris Olympics Archery Ranking Round Live: Dhiraj Bommadevara Starts 2nd half with bang!

Indian archers after Set 7/12

• Rank 10: Dhiraj - X X 10 10 9 9 58 58 (Total: 393/420)
• 15: Dhiraj - 10, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9 = 55 (Total: 392)
• 38: Pravin - X, 10, 9, 9, 9, 8 = 55 (383)

Excellent start by Dhiraj in the back half of the set as he shoots 58 out of 60!

Paris 2024 Archery Live - India Currently 6th in team event

India are currently sixth in team event and outside the top four or the automatic qualifying spot for quarterfinals with 1000 points. The fourth-placed Chinese Taipei still within their grabs as they are just two points ahead!

In the mixed team rankings, India are currently 7th with 1003 points. All eyes on Dhiraj and Tarundeep for an intra-battle for a top spot!

Archery Ranking Round Live: Tarundeep Rai Improves to 14th

Indian archers at the halfway stage

• Rank 14: Tarundeep Rai - X, 10, 10, 9, 9, 8 = 56 337/360
• Rank 25: Dhiraj Bommadevara - X X 10 9 9 8 =56 335
• Rank 37: Pravin Jadhav - 10, 10, 10, 9, 9, 8 = 56 328

Tarundeep Rai keeps the battle on with a 14th spot at the halfway mark while Dhiraj is among Top 25.

However, Pravin is struggling and is currently in the back half of the draw. This is surely to affect the overall ranking of India for the team events. Will take a look at that next!

Paris 2024 Live: Lee Woo-Seok keeps lead

Korea's Lee Woo-Seeok has kept the lead for back-to-back sets but his lead at the top is of mere two points at the moment

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Indian Archers fall out of Top 20

Indian archers after set 4/12

• Rank 23: Tarundeep - 10, 9, 9, 9, 9, 7 = 53 (Total points: 223/240)
• 27: Dhiraj - 10, 10, 10, 9, 9, 8 = 56 (Total: 222)
• 43: Pravin - X, 10, 9, 9, 8, 8 = 54 (217)

Indian archers are struggling at the moment while Bangladesh's Md Sagor Islam in currently at 7th with 227 points out of 240

Paris 2024 Olympics Live: Tarundeep Rai tied-16th with Brady Elllison and Kim Woo-jin

Indian archers after Set 3/12

Rank 16: Tarundeep Rai - X, X, 10, 9, 9, 9 = 57 (Total: 170/180)

Rank 33: Dhiraj - 10, 10, 9, 9, 9, 9 = 56 (Total:166)

Rank 42: Pravin - 10, 9, 9, 9, 8, 8 = 53 (163)

Not to mislead anyone but Tarundeep is currently tied on 170 points with Olympics and World Record Holders while Korea's Lee Woo-seok has the lead at 174

Paris Olympics Archery Ranking Round Live: Fight for top spot

See-saw battle early on for top spot as Colombia's Santiago Arcila takes top spot while Musolesi slumps to 10th spot!

Paris 2024 Archery Live: Dhiraj Bommadevara Slumps to 33rd, Tarundeep jumps to 16th

• Indian archers after Set 2 of 12
• Rank 16: Tarundeep Rai - X, 10, 10, 10, 9, 9 = 58 - (Total: 113/120 Points)
• 33: 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 8 = 53 (110 Points)
• 36:10, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9 = 55 110 Points)

Note: X is bull's eye or the inner circle of 10 (counts 10 and comes into count if two archers are tied on the same points)

Archery Ranking Round Live: Federico Musolesi takes early lead

Italy's Federico Musolesi takes the early lead with a phenomenal round of 59 out of 60!

Olympics 2024 Live: Action begins!

Indian archers after Set 1 of 12

• Rank 11: Dhiraj Bommadevara - 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 8 = 57 Points
• Rank 30: Pravin Jadhav - X, 10, 9, 9, 9, 8 = 55
• Rank 33: Tarundeep Rai - 10, 10, 9, 9, 9, 8 = 55

Paris 2024 Live: Latest Update

The men's ranking round are to start soon as archers are firing warm-up rounds

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: Awaiting Update

To remind you and those unaware, there is no Live Telecast of the Archery Ranking Rounds from Paris. We are still waiting for the first update from the venue for the event!

Paris 2024 Olympics Live:

As the Men's Ranking Round are all set to begin, let's take a look at the Record books for the event

• World Record: Brady Ellison (USA): 702/720
• Olympic Record: Kim Woo-jin (KOR): 700

Paris Olympics Archery Ranking Round Live: Top Men's Archers at Paris Olympics

As we are minutes away from the Paris Olympics Men's Archery Ranking Round, defending champion Mete Gazoz is no more a teenager and returns with a wealth of experience under his belt.

He will face still challenges from South Koreans, led by experiencedKim Woo-jin and his understudyKim Je-deok.

Brazil's World No. 1Marcus D'Almeida will try to bring his top form to the game while multiple podium finishers at the Olympics, 40-year-old Mauro Nespoli may rewrite history books in what could be the last Olympics!

Paris 2024 Archery Live: How Ranking and Seedings Work?

Archery Ranking and Seeding

• Archers' scores can reach a maximum of 720 points.
• Scores are totaled and archers are ranked from highest to lowest.
• This ranking determines their seeding for the subsequent matchplay rounds.

• Archers are ranked from 1 to 64 based on their scores.
• The top 32 archers in both men's and women's ranking rounds will have a relatively easier path in the knockout stages:
• No. 1 seed will face No. 64.
• No. 2 seed will face No. 63, and so on.
• The combined results of all three archers from same nation also decides the team ranking
• There's intra-competition too as the top performing archer per nation from the three will represent their side in the mixed team event!

Archery Ranking Round Live: Men's round format

The format for men's ranking is same as the women but in case you missed the afternoon session, here's the format for Archery Ranking Round again!

• Objective: Archers shoot to accumulate the highest total points.
• Participants: All 128 participating archers (64 men and women each) will compete in the ranking round.
• Purpose: The ranking round determines the seeding for individual, mixed team, and team events.
• Shooting Details:
  • Archers shoot 72 arrows at a target 70 meters away.
  • The round is divided into 12 ends (series) of six arrows each with maximum point available from an arrow is 10.
  • Each end takes about two minutes to complete.
• Scoring:
  • The maximum possible score is 720 points.
  • Scores are totalled, and archers are ranked from highest to lowest based on their scores.

Olympics 2024 Live: Know Your Indian Men's Archer

We are less than 15 minutes away from the Live action and the three Indian archers in action are 40-year-old veteran Tarundeep Rai, Tokyo Olympian Praveen Jadhav and youngster Dhiraj Bommadevara.

The trio had an excellent year so far with World Cup success to their names and will look to change the perspective that recurve archery is a game dominated by women archers in India!

Paris 2024 Live: Apologies for the delay

Apologies for the delay due to a technical error but we do have some good news in store for you.

The women's archery team has directly qualified for the quarterfinals after finishing fourth in the Ranking Round earlier. This means two wins on July 28 will seal a medal for India.

However, the worry is India may either face France or the Netherlands in quarters while on collision course with mighty South Koreans in the semis.

Paris Olympics 2024 Live

Hello and welcome back to the Live coverage of the Archery ranking round action at the Paris Olympics.

This is your host Aditya K Halder, who returns well in time for the Men's Ranking Round. The event is set to begin at 5:45 PM IST, giving us enough time to discuss the three Indian archers and other star names in action.

But before that few crucial points from the women's ranking round in our next update!

Paris 2024 Live: Deepika Kumari disappoints

India's senior archer Deepika Kumari turns out to be a disappointment as she was a far cry from her personal best of 686 while Ankita Bhakat made the most of the opportunity and grabbed the top spot among Indians.

We will take a short break for now and return to discuss what the result mean for the Indian archers and is followed by the coverage Men's Archery Ranking Round from 5:45 PM IST!

Paris Olympics 2024 Live: India Ranked 4th in Team

India finished with a rank of 4th in the Women's Team event with an aggregate of 1983 out of a possible 2160!

South Korean trio ofLim Sihyeon, Nam Suh-yeon, Jeon Hun-young set an Olympic record of 2046, surpassing the previous record of 2032, also of Korea's, from the Tokyo Olympics!

To those, joined in late, no medals were on the offer today in the Archery Ranking Rounds, which only determines the seeding.

Ankita Bhakat stars on the day for India with a 11th spot finish and will be India's representation in the mixed team event with his male compatriot to be decided later today in the men's ranking round from 5:45 PM IST!

Paris 2024 Olympics Live: Indian archers result at the end of Women's Ranking Round

• Rank 11: Ankita Bhakat - 666/720 points
• Rank 22: Bhajan Kaur - 659
• Rank 23: Deepika Kumari - 658

Ankita Bhakat finishes with a season-best timing while Bhajan and Deepika cover ground after faltering at the start! Stay tuned as we bring the Team standing next!

Paris Olympics Archery Ranking Round Live: WORLD RECORD & OLYMPIC RECORD ALERT!

WORLD RECORD & OLYMPIC RECORD ALERT! Lim Se-Hyeon surpasses her compatriot Kang Chae-young's five-year World Record of 692!

The Korean World No. 2 also surpasses the Olympic Record by another Korean legend An San (680) as Lim finishes the morning with an aggregate of 694 out of 720!