Abhishek Verma bagged India’s first ever Archery World Cup Final medal in the compound section as he won the silver medal after being pipped by Turkey’s Demir Elmaagcli. The 26-year-old Verma, an Asian Games individual silver medallist, capped an impressive campaign when he dealt a perfect 150 on giant killer Mario Cardoso in the semifinals but only to go down 143-145 in the gold medal match against Elmaagcli to settle for a silver. Earlier, fifth seeded Verma had defeated fourth seeded Martin Damsbo of Denmark 148-146 in the quarterfinals.

Deepika Kumari bagged her fourth silver medal in five years at the Archery World Cup Final after going down to Korea’s Choi Misun in Mexico City.Eyeing her first gold medal in five attempts at the showpiece season-ending event, Deepika won her quarters and semifinals easily but lost 2-6 against the reigning world number one and top-seeded Misun. Deepika’s only two international gold medals to date are the famous Commonwealth Games win in 2010 and, two years later, the Antalya stage of the Archery World Cup.

India thus concluded their campaign with two silver medals.