India’s recurve women's team of Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari assured India of its first medal in the Archery World Cup Stage 1 after cruising into the final with a straight-set win over Spain here. However, the men's team, which qualified as third seed, lost in the quarterfinals to its Spanish rivals 26-27 in a shoot-off after both teams were tied 4-4. India are also in the medal hunt in three more events with newly-wed Atanu Das and Deepika advancing into the mixed pair bronze playoff.

The duo will also vie for individual medals, having made the last-four in their respective sections. In the women's semi-final, Spanish trio of Elia Canales, Ines De Velasco and Leyre Fernandez Infante were no match to the top seeded Indians, who drilled in consistent scores of 55, 56 and 55 to seal a 6-0 win and make their first World Cup final since Shanghai, 2016. The women's team will take on seventh-seed Mexico in the gold medal clash on Sunday. They will start firm favourites in a depleted field without Asian heavyweights Korea, China and Chinese Taipei. Indian recurve women's team have won team gold in World Cup four times (Shanghai- 2011, Medellin-2013, Wroclaw-2013 and 2014) with former world number one Deepika being a constant in each event. For the womens' team, who is yet to clinch an Olympic quota, the win was a big boost ahead of the last Olympic qualification event -- the World Cup Stage 3 in Paris in June.