Indian women's recurve team qualify for Rio Olympics
The Indian women’s recurve team comprising of Deepika Kumari, Rimil Buriuly and Laxmirani Majhi booked their places in the Rio Olympics with a 5-3 win over Germany.
The second set turned it around for the Indians where they posted two scores of perfect 10. The Germans hung in there, but six scores of 8 and no 10 in the third and fourth sets cost them a place in the last eight.
India will take on Columbia in the quarterfinal.
Here are the scores:
SET 1
| Germany | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 9 |
| India | 9 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 |
SET 2
| Germany | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| India | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 |
SET 3
| Germany | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
| India | 9 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 9 |
SET 4
| Germany | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| India | 10 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
Indian women through to #Rio2016 with a comprehensive victory over Germany 5-3. Congratulations! @worldarchery
— Archery India (@archeryindia) July 28, 2015
#upsetwatch: 7 seed Germany out to India in recurve women team's first round #WAC2015 #archery
— Archery World Cup (@WorldCupArchery) July 28, 2015
Indian women's Recurve Archery team enter quarterfinals of World Championship to win 3 #Rio2016 #Olympics Quota places , bt Germany 5-3
— India at Sports (@indiaatsports) July 28, 2015
Archers Deepika Kumari, Rimil Buriuly & Laxmirani Majhi- the women's recurve team who have won an olympic quota place pic.twitter.com/Ob0V9RmgUm
— Olympic Gold Quest (@OGQ_India) July 28, 2015