<p>National champion Deepika, who is also the reigning cadet world champion, will play Ki Bo Bae of Korea for the gold medal clash in Stage IV of the event.<br /><br />This is for the first time that the Jharkhand archer has made it to the final of a world cup and also first Indian woman archer after two-time Olympian Dola Banerjee, who won the Dover World Cup in 2007.<br /><br />Seeded 13th, Deepika had earlier downed fifth seed American Lorig Khatuna 6-5 in a close quarterfinal women's recurve clash.<br /><br />Jayanta Talukdar too was on the threshold of making it to the final of the men's individual recurve but could not overcome Lee Chang-Hwan of Korea, losing 2-6 in the semifinals.<br /><br />The Guwahati-born Tata Steel employee overcame Beijing Olympic Games gold medalist Viktor Ruban of Ukraine 6-4 in the quarter-finals.<br /><br />Talukdar will be in fray for the bronze medal provided he quells the challenge of Athens Olympic Champion Marco Galiazzo of Italy.<br /><br />Only three recurve archers, Tarundeep Rai, Rahul Banerjee and Dola Banerjee made the pre-quarterfinals before bowing out.<br /><br />Rai lost to Kim Woojin of Korea 2-4; Rahul Banerjee fell to Galiazzo 0-4 and Dola lost to Aida Roman of Mexico 3-4.<br /><br />Mangal Singh Champia lost to Matthew Gary of Australia in the first round 4-2 and L Bombayla Devi and Rimil Buruily also fell in the first round.<br /><br />In the compound section, National champion C Srither and Chittibomma Jignas both went down in the first round while Ritul Chatterjee and Khuraijam Ratan Singh fell in the second round.<br /><br />The four women archers in this category were eliminated in the second round.</p>
<p>National champion Deepika, who is also the reigning cadet world champion, will play Ki Bo Bae of Korea for the gold medal clash in Stage IV of the event.<br /><br />This is for the first time that the Jharkhand archer has made it to the final of a world cup and also first Indian woman archer after two-time Olympian Dola Banerjee, who won the Dover World Cup in 2007.<br /><br />Seeded 13th, Deepika had earlier downed fifth seed American Lorig Khatuna 6-5 in a close quarterfinal women's recurve clash.<br /><br />Jayanta Talukdar too was on the threshold of making it to the final of the men's individual recurve but could not overcome Lee Chang-Hwan of Korea, losing 2-6 in the semifinals.<br /><br />The Guwahati-born Tata Steel employee overcame Beijing Olympic Games gold medalist Viktor Ruban of Ukraine 6-4 in the quarter-finals.<br /><br />Talukdar will be in fray for the bronze medal provided he quells the challenge of Athens Olympic Champion Marco Galiazzo of Italy.<br /><br />Only three recurve archers, Tarundeep Rai, Rahul Banerjee and Dola Banerjee made the pre-quarterfinals before bowing out.<br /><br />Rai lost to Kim Woojin of Korea 2-4; Rahul Banerjee fell to Galiazzo 0-4 and Dola lost to Aida Roman of Mexico 3-4.<br /><br />Mangal Singh Champia lost to Matthew Gary of Australia in the first round 4-2 and L Bombayla Devi and Rimil Buruily also fell in the first round.<br /><br />In the compound section, National champion C Srither and Chittibomma Jignas both went down in the first round while Ritul Chatterjee and Khuraijam Ratan Singh fell in the second round.<br /><br />The four women archers in this category were eliminated in the second round.</p>