Jyothi Vennam weighs in on not getting 'same recognition' as recurve archers

Although she hits the bullseye consistently and wins several laurels at big international meets Jyothi Surekha Vennam does not get enough recognition like recurve archers or other sportspersonsThe Vijayawada girl clinched two gold medals in the compound category at the World Cup in Antalya Turkey recently The 26yearold triumphed in the individual and mixed compound event to end the first stage of the World Cup on a highldquoIrsquom mighty thrilled as I was able to win two gold medals It is my best performance in a World Cup event The arrows came off nicely and I handled the pressure wellrdquo Surekha told midday from AntalyaFormidable partnershipThe Andhra archer who is a Deputy Collector in NTR district teamed up with debutant Ojas Deotale to beat Chen Yi Hsuan and Chem Chieh Lun of Chinese Taipei 159154 On the same day Surekha defeated a more fancied Sara Lopez of Colombia 149146 in the womenrsquos individual final This was her third World Cup gold In 2020 she captured her maiden World Cup gold in the mixed event with Abhishek Verma The ace archer has won 44 international medals including 10 World Cup medalsAlso Read Double joy for archer Jyothi Surekha VennamSurekha said she never looked at the score and her sole focus was to shoot accurately ldquoIt is always unpredictable and tough to know the result till the last arrow So my aim was to get a maximum of 10 points from each of my shots In the last round my score was 30rsquorsquoWorld record featIn the mixed event the experienced Surekha held her nerve alongside partner Deotale who was playing with the seniors team for the first time ldquoThis was his first World Cup I knew I had to lead from the front I was happy I could get 10 points with many of my shots In the process we even equalled the world recordrdquoDeotale was the bestplaced Indian in the menrsquos qualifying event and therefore got the opportunity to pair with Surekha who topped in the womenrsquos qualifying eventSurekha credited her success to her coaches especially the newlyappointed Italian Sergio Pagni ldquoWhile Jiwanjot Singh who is my personal coach has always been of great help the Italian coach stressed on mental toughnessrdquo she saidWhen asked if she is disappointed that compound archers donrsquot get the same recognition like recurve archers Surekha replied ldquoThere is always a sense of regret that this event is not a part of the Olympics Participation in the Olympics is always special Sometimes I feel that how many ever World Cup or World Championship or Asian Games medals you win winning an Olympic medal is a totally different feeling An Olympic medal is an Olympic medal Therefore Irsquoll always miss it in my cabinet rsquorsquoAlthough the Asian Games is one of the top priorities for Surekha her focus will be towards the other three stages of the World Cup and the World Championship ldquoThe Turkey event was Stage One of the World Cup and the Stage Two will be held in Shanghai China next monthrsquorsquo Surekha signed offThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever