India go down fighting in Men's Archery

Pre-tournament medal prospects India, went out of the Men’s Team Archery recurve event in a nail biting shoot out in the pre-quarters at Lords.

Team India : Jayanta Talukdar , Tarundeep Rai , Rahul Banerjee

Team Japan : T Furukawa , Yu Ishizu , H Kikuchu

Result : India 214 (27) lost to Japan 214 ( 219 )

India had a good start with a two point lead after the first round. India had a chance to widen the gap with 10,9,10 score in round 2, but Japan came back strongly. In the second half Japan struggled and the Indians, yet again could not take the advantage and the lead stayed at 3 points. Japan then dominated at the end of round 3 with a 10,10,9 score, and India failed to respond as they scored 9,9,8. With a lead of only 1 point, round number 4 began and the Indians held their nerve with a two point lead and 3 arrows to fire.

In the last three shots, Japan scored 29 out of a possible 30. Jayanta scored 9 , Tarundeep an 8, and Rahul Banerjee scored 9 to equal the score with 214 points.

In the shoot off, which reminded of the World Cup 2011 Inda-Japan match, the Indians couldn’t get their revenge as Japan’s 10,10,9 score was matched with a 9,9,9 by India.

India went out of men’s archery recurve event and missed a chance to progress by a whisker.