Parneet Kaur, Kushal Dalal and Sahil Jadhav made it to the compound individual semifinals and remained in medal contention in archery competitions of the World University Games in Essen, Germany, on Wednesday (July 23, 2025).
In the women’s section, the top-ranked Parneet got a first round bye and beat Kazakhstan’s Aizhan Seidakhmetova 146-145, Singapore’s Low Ellie Teng 148-144 and France’s Alyssia Chambraud 144-141 to reach the last-four. She will meet Korean Kim Sooyeon.
Second-ranked Kushal got two byes before getting past Frenchman Victor Bouleau 148-147, Turkey’s Yunus Arslan 148-148 (shoot-off: 10-9) and Germany’s Ruven Fluss 148-146 to enter the semifinals.
Sahil, too, received two byes and defeated Chinese Taipei’s Huang Jin Le 145-143, Slovenia’s Aljaz Brenk 148-147 and Great Britain’s Finlay Clark 146-142 to set up an all-Indian semis clash with Kushal.
Among notable performers, Avneet Kaur (compound) and Basanti Mahato (recurve) exited in the quarterfinals.
None of the Indian recurve archers, including Olympian Bhajan Kaur, could make it to the medal rounds.
Published – July 24, 2025 02:00 am IST
