Newly-crowned world champion Ojas Deotale made his mark by landing his arrow closer to the center (X), propelling the Indian men’s team to victory with a 235-235 (30*-30) tiebreaker against Korea in the compound men’s team semifinal.
The Indian men’s team is set to clash with the USA in the gold medal match.
In a remarkable comeback, the Indian women’s compound team, recently crowned world champions in Berlin, overcame a deficit to defeat Britain 234-233.
The top-seeded Indian women’s trio, comprised of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, and Parneet Kaur, will contend against Mexico in the final showdown.
The men’s team of Deotale, Prathamesh Jawkar and Abhishek Verma squandered a two-point lead and let the Korean trio of Choi Yonghee, Kim Jongho and Yang Jaewon level scores in the fourth end.
Both the teams were locked 235-all after four ends, and the shoot-off also produced a 30-30 as it all went to the last arrow by Deotale.
In the women’s semifinal, India trailed 59-60 but they snatched the lead in the second end only to see Britain go up again 176-175. But in the fourth end, the Indian trio came up with a near perfect show of 59 out of 60 to confirm their final berth.
(With PTI inputs)