Olympics: Deepika Kumari finishes 9th in Ranking event

India’s Olympics run commenced with Deepika Kumari’s 9th place finish in the ranking round of the Women’s Archery Individual event.

The Ranchi-based archer scored 663 out of a possible 720 points that saw her end up just inside the top 10.

All of the top 3 places were occupied by Koreans, and surprisingly all three of them surpassed the Olympic record score of 673 out of 720 set by Ukrainian Lina Herasymenko way back at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.

Kumari now will face Bhutan’s Karma in her Round of 64 knockout match on the virtue of her finish in the ranking event.

Despite scoring 30 10s and 13 Xs on the way to her 9th place finish, Kumari would feel she could have done a lot better as a few 7s and 8s stopped her from finishing much higher.

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