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It is South Korea all the way

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KOLKATA: It was South Korea all the way in the recurve section of the fourth Meteksan World Cup archery championship which concluded at Shanghai on Saturday. The honours in the compound section were shared by the United States and Russia.

The best Indian show was finishing fourth in the women's recurve team event where India lost the bronze medal to Turkey in the play-off after the team's most experienced Dola Banerjee, needing to shoot two arrows in the final 50 seconds, failed to release her final arrow before the buzzer went off.

In an email to this newspaper, team's manager-cum-coach, Sanjeeva Singh said India had a six-point lead at the end of the third end. "In the final, the other two archers, Punya Prabha and Chekrovolu Swuro, took the lead further. Dola could not shoot the second arrow in time and India lost the contest by three points,'' he said.

Singh also said Indian men's recurve team's first round loss to Belarus was owing to another experienced Tarundeep Rai shooting a five that resulted in India losing the tie at 24-27 after the two teams tied at 210 and 28-28 in the first shoot-off.

The results:

Recurve: Individual men's final: Jang Yong Ho (Kor) 112 bt Park Kyung Mo (Kor) 111. 3-4 places: Yong Fujun (Chn) 108 bt Ilario di Buo (Ita) 104. India's Tarundeep Rai (17), Jayanta Talukdar (18), Mangal Singh Champia (22) and Vishwash (41).

Women's final: Yun Ok Hee (Kor) 115 bt Yun Mi Jin (Kor) 109. 3-4 places: Lee Tuk Young (Kor) 116 bt Wu Hui Ju (Tpe) 104. India's Punya Prabha (8), Chekrovolu Swuro (20), Dola Banerjee (22) and Reena Kumari (28).

Team men's final: Korea 227 bt Turkey 213. 3-4 places: Italy 223 bt Chinese Taipei 218. India (12th).

Women's final: Korea 214 bt China 206. 3-4 places: Turkey 213 bt India 210.

Compound: individual men's final: Dave Cousins (US) 114 bt Jorge Jimenez (El Salvador) 109. 3-4 places: Vitor Sidi Neto (Bra) 117 bt Dominique Genet (Fra) 114.

Women's final: Sofia Goncharova (Rus) 116 bt Linda Ochoa (Mex) 107. 3-4 places: Anna Kazantseva (Rus) 110 (9,8) bt Jamie van Natta (US)

110-(9,7).

India's Jhano Hansdah (10), Bhegyabati Chanu (18th), Manjudha Soy (21) and Sweeti Kumari (25). Team men's final: US 230 bt Mexico 226. 3-4 places: China 212 bt Iran 211.

Women's final: Russia 224 bt US 218. 3-4 places: The Philippines 212 bt Mexico 210, India (5th).

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