India's Ankita Bhakat, center, competes during the women's archery individual ranking round at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
Powered by Ankita Bhakat's season-best score of 666, Indian women recurve archers collectively finished fourth in the individual ranking round on Thursday (July 25) to ensure their passage to the quarter-finals of the women's team event of Paris Olympic Games 2024. Bhakat stood 11th, while Bhajan Kaur ended as 22nd and Deepika Kumari 23rd. This meant that India qualified for the quarter-finals as the fourth seed, behind Korea, China and Mexico. India will meet the winner of France and Netherlands in the last-eight stage. They are in the same half as Korea, and would run into the archery powerhouses in the semi-finals if both teams advance.
India's Ankita Bhakat, center, competes during the women's archery individual ranking round at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
India's archer Bhajan Kaur during women's individual ranking round at the Summer Olympics 2024, at Gardens of Les Invalides, in Paris.
India's archer Deepika Kumari during women's individual ranking round at the Summer Olympics 2024, at Gardens of Les Invalides, in Paris.
India's archer Ankita Bhakat during women's individual ranking round at the Summer Olympics 2024, at Gardens of Les Invalides, in Paris.
(L-R) India's archers Bhajan Kaur, Ankita Bhakat and Deepika Kumari during women's individual ranking round at the Summer Olympics 2024, at Gardens of Les Invalides, in Paris.
India's Ankita Bhakat, right, and Deepika Kumari walk during the women's archery individual ranking round at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
India's archer Bhajan Kaur during women's individual ranking round at the Summer Olympics 2024, at Gardens of Les Invalides, in Paris.
India's archer Deepika Kumari during women's individual ranking round at the Summer Olympics 2024, at Gardens of Les Invalides, in Paris.