India is starting its campaign in the Tokyo Olympics from today. India will take part in the Archery on the first day.

World No.1 recurve archer India's Deepika Kumari finished ninth in the women's ranking round at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.
27-year-old Deepika Kumari will now take on the 56th-ranked Bhutanese Karma in the first elimination round after finishing ninth. Rio Olympian Karma is ranked 193 in the world rankings.

Dipika shot 30 (10) and 13 (X) in her 72 arrows, scoring 663 points out of a possible 720. The Olympic record of 673 points in the qualification round was broken by the top four archers - Korea's An San (680), Jang Minhee (677), Kang Chae Young (675) and Mexico's Alejandra Valencia (674).

Ukraine's Lena Hrasimenko set an Olympic record in 1996 with 673 points and now all four archers have surpassed it. I think my performance was both good and bad. It was in the middle. On the poor performance in the last six sets, he said, "I don't know why it happened. I was trying to control my shots so that I could play better.

The Indian men's trio of Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai and Praveen Jadhav will enter the fray for the men's ranking round on Friday itself. After this, the draws of mixed doubles and team events are also to be decided.