{"id":141,"date":"2021-06-27T09:53:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T04:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=116770"},"modified":"2021-06-27T09:55:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T04:25:05","slug":"archery-world-cup-indias-abhishek-verma-secures-his-place-with-gold-medal-in-the-world-cup-final-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/archery-world-cup-indias-abhishek-verma-secures-his-place-with-gold-medal-in-the-world-cup-final-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Archery World Cup, Paris: India\u2019s Abhishek Verma secures his place with gold medal in the World Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abhishek Verma wins Gold medal for India at Paris archery World Cup in individual men\u2019s compound event beating America\u2019s Kris Schaff in a tie-breaker shoot-off on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Win\u2026 and in. \u2705<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Abhishek Verma is headed to the 2021 Hyundai <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Archery?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Archery<\/a> World Cup Final. \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3\ud83d\ude4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ArcheryWorldCup?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ArcheryWorldCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4hBo5q3K4z\">pic.twitter.com\/4hBo5q3K4z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 World Archery (@worldarchery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/worldarchery\/status\/1408830917628551171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It booked Verma a preprogrammed bid to this year\u2019s Hyundai Archery World Cup Final in his one-and-only shot to win it. Meanwhile American Kris Schaff will be attending the season-ending event as a points qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am feeling very excited. We waited for a very long time. We wished for almost two years, and now we come back with a great victory. It\u2019s very good for me as well as for my the country,\u201d said Verma.<\/p>\n<p>The event allowed action of India\u2019s compound archers in Paris on the international circuit after missing the first stages of the year and last season\u2019s revocation.<\/p>\n<p>Verma had overcome Russia\u2019s Anton Bulaev by 146-138 in the semifinal on Saturday and met USA\u2019s Schaff in the final defeating him in the gold medal fixture.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old gold medal winner, dominated since the start and scored perfect 30s apiece in the first three of five attempts and led with two points then Schaff came back and levelled up with the score that took the contest to the tie-breaker.<\/p>\n<p>Abhishek Verma is the first man from India to win two gold medals in the men\u2019s compound individual event at the Archery World Cup. He won the first in Wroclaw, Poland in the year 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abhishek Verma wins Gold medal for India at Paris archery World Cup in individual men\u2019s compound event beating America\u2019s Kris\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":23284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1904,941,1871,1080,1876],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-abhishek-verma","tag-america","tag-archery-world-cup","tag-gold-medalist","tag-indian-archery-men"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}