Youth Olympic Games 2018: Recurve archers Akash Malik, Himani Kumari advance to pre-quarter-finals

Buenos Aires: Indian archers Akash Malik and Himani Kumari kept themselves in the medal hunt, advancing to the pre-quarter-final rounds of their respective events at the Youth Olympic Games on Monday. [caption id=“attachment_4152463” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image. AFP[/caption] The 16-year-old Akash, who trains at the Army Sports Institute in Pune, showed courage to down Canadian Benjamen Lee in the shoot-off of his round one contest in the recurve cadet men’s individual event. Trailing 3-5 after the fourth set, Akash shot two perfect 10s in the fifth set to level 5-5 and take the battle into the shoot-off where both shot 9-all but the Indian was adjudged winner with his arrow closer to the centre. Akash will face Jose Manuel Solera of Spain for a place in the quarterfinals. Himani had an easy first round outing, cruising past Jil Walter of Samoa 7-1 to set up a last-16 clash against Catalina Gnoriega of the USA in the women’s recurve cadet individual event.