Archery News
At World Cup Stage 4, Shanghai, China

Team Recurve Men (Jayanta TALUKDAR, Rahul BANERJEE, Tarundeep RAI)
[R1] India bt Great Britain 218 pts - 216 pts
[QF] India bt USA 225 pts - 208 pts
[SF] India bt China 222 pts - 214 pts

[F] India vs Japan

Individual Recurve Women
[R1] Deepika KUMARI IND (57,56) bt Veronika HAIDN TSCHALOVA GER (50,53) 4-0
[R2] Deepika KUMARI IND (53,52,57) bt Carina Rosenvinge CHRISTIANSEN DEN (51,54,54) 4-2
[R3] Deepika KUMARI IND (51,51,56) bt Ming CHENG CHN (49,55,55) 4-2
[QF] Deepika KUMARI IND (26,26,25,28,27-T10 ) bt Khatuna LORIG USA (28,29,19,25,27-T8 ) 6-5
[SF] Deepika KUMARI IND (28,28,29) bt Hui Ju WU TPE (27,27,24) 6-0

For Gold Medal
Deepika KUMARI IND vs Bo Bae KI KOR

Individual Recurve Men
[R1] Jayanta TALUKDAR IND (60,57) bt Mikalai MARUSAU BLR (52,55) 4-0
[R2] Jayanta TALUKDAR IND (54,59) bt Shenzhou ZHAO CHN (53,56) 4-0
[R3] Jayanta TALUKDAR IND (57,54,56-T10* ) bt Brady ELLISON USA (55,58,56-T10 ) 4-3
[QF] Jayanta TALUKDAR IND (26,29,28,27,28) bt Viktor RUBAN UKR (26,29,26,29,27) 6-4
[SF] Jayanta TALUKDAR IND (27,27,29,28) l Chang-Hwan LEE KOR (30,29,28,29) 2-6

For Bronze Medal
Jayanta TALUKDAR IND vs Marco GALIAZZO ITA

Very good performance by our Archers at 4th stage of World Cup ... What more heartening is they performing well at same venue where Asian Games are going to play in November.

Deepika Kumar r in the final of individual Recurve Women event upsetting many top archers ... She won nail-biting quarter-final against American arches in quarters before easy victory against Taipei player in the semis ... In this final she is facing Korean archer Bo Bae Ki.

Our Recurve Men team also showed impressive performance ... They finished second in qualifying with 2030 pts behind Koreans, who scored world record of 2043 pts breaking their previous WR of 2039 pts ... Now our team is in the final beating local Chinese team in semis ... In the final they r facing Japanese team, who upset top-seed Koreans in semis.

Jayanta Talukdar also performed well ... He lost in the semis against Korean archer and play for Bronze medal against experienced Italian archer Marco Galiazzo.