Archery News
At World Cup Stage 2, Porec, Croatia - 4th to 9th May 2009

In Recurve Men Team Qualifying India finished top with 3993 pts, 56 pts ahead of second place Chinese team ... And for individual event Jayanta Talukdar qualified on 2nd position, Mangal Singh Champia on 6th and Rahul Banerjee on 7th position.

Namita Yadav also reached into quarter-final individual Compound Women event before losing close match to Croatian Ivana Buden, who is in the final.

Jayanta Talukdar entered into final of Individual Recurve Men knock-out event and Recurve Men Team reached final in team event ... Our women team lost in semis against France after beating top-seed team Italy in quarters ... They face Ukraine team for bronze medal.

These all matches will be played tomorrow.

Recurve Women Team Knock-out event
[R16] (9) India bt (8) Great Britain 217 (T28) - 217 (T23)
[QF] (9) India bt (1) Italy 217 - 212
[SF] (9) India l (4) France 206 - 209

For Bronze Medal
(9) India vs (3) Ukraine

Recurve Men Team Qualifying
1 India - 3993 pts

Rahul Banerjee - 1328 pts
Mangal Singh Champia - 1329 pts
Jayanta Talukdar - 1336 pts

Recurve Men Team Knock-out event
[R16] (1) India bt (16) Slovakia 224 - 193
[QF] (1) India bt (9) USA 227 - 218
[SF] (1) India bt (5) Italy 225 - 220

Recurve Men Team Final
(1) India vs (3) Russia

Individual Recurve Men knock-out
[R1] Viswash (IND) bt Rafael Poppenborg (GER) 112 - 107
[R1] Mangal Singh Champia (IND) bt Chris Marsh (SUI) 110 - 103
[R1] Rahul Banerjee (IND) bt Tyler Domenech (USA) 112 - 102
[R1] Jayanta Talukdar (IND) bt Luis Felipe Paulinyi (BRA) 113 - 105

[R2] Viswash (IND) bt Mangal Singh Champia (IND) 113 (T9,10) - 113 (T9,9)
[R2] Rahul Banerjee (IND) bt Damian Goly (POL) 111 - 101
[R2] Jayanta Talukdar (IND) bt Hai Feng Xue (CHN) 112 - 111

[R3] Viswash (IND) bt Bair Badenov (RUS) 104 - 99
[R3] Rahul Banerjee (IND) l Baljinima Tsyrempilov (RUS) 110-113
[R3] Jayanta Talukdar (IND) bt Yu xing (CHN) 113 - 111

[QF] Viswash (IND) l Jean-Charles Valladont (FRA) 104 (T8) - 104(T9)
[QF] Jayanta Talukdar (IND) bt Baljinima Tsyrempilov (RUS) 112 - 110

[SF] Jayanta Talukdar (IND) bt Jean-Charles Valladont (FRA) 112 - 101

Individual Recurve Men Final
Jayanta Talukdar (IND) vs Marco Galiazzo (ITA)